It wasn't a great welcome to France, actually, as it was wet and cold (and I'd already caught a cold somehow), our shuttle was late, then waited around for someone else, and then there was lots of traffic on our drive to the hotel! So, we landed about 6pm, and we arrived at our hotel about 9pm. And then we had to find some dinner, and try not to fall asleep at the table in the restaurant.
Luckily, we found somewhere just across from our hotel, and thoroughly enjoyed our meals.It was hard case: the waiter was chatting away with all his customers like old friends (which, maybe they were), the chef was sticking his head out of the kitchen door to watch the soccer, and one lady had a small dog in her bag!The next day... bus tour! How to see all the big sights as fast as poss, given that we only had the one day for sightseeing. To be honest, it was pretty hard to take it all in so quickly. Probably needed to do the tour about 3 times to take in all the info about the places we were going past. BUT, I do have pictures, so here are some of the famous places we went past:
Our plan for the evening was to go down to the Seine, and go on a cruise; Mum was dead set on this. We did the local thing and went on the Métro. Aside from me panicking and thinking we had gone to the platform for the one going the wrong way (we hadn't), we were reasonably successful.Boat cruise: not so successful. You could even say fail. We needed food first, so we wandered around (for quite a while) trying to find something. Ended up at a resto very, very close to the Eiffel tower (but trees blocking the view!) with a rather amusing waiter, who reminded me of my old boss from Take 5. Ie, he was giving us shit right from the start. Great meal there and, by the time we'd finished, it was too late for cruising, and we were all exhausted! Instead, just a quick walk past the sparkling tower, and back onto the Métro.
