French Holidays (part 5)

Part 5 ...... hope you are not bored yet!!


Really quick trip to Paris was enjoyed by all, and we jumped into a taxi to take us to Opera District where we all booked into the Holiday Inn. We managed to get rooms next to each other, and the kids had an inter leading door to our room. At first they opened the interleading door, but did not give us a doorknob! That meant if the kids were in our room and the door closed we could not get back into their room – numb nuts!!

Anyway after having too go explain to them the silliness of this situation we were handed a door knob, which we kept on our side! ;-) That night we went for a walk and 100m away from the hotel was MacDonald’s! The kids clamoured to eat there so we all had Mac for supper (urgh!). Back to the hotel, and a sleep. Friday a.m. was to find the open top bus, and do the tour. It was quite easy.

Out hotel, right, left and left again and the bus stand was there. We all bought a 2 day pass which means we could jump on and off at will. We jumped along and saw all the sights till we hit the Champs Elysee, which meant shopping for Tanya ( of course) and so we jumped off and all went shopping. Met up later at the Starbucks (Tanya and Roy (T & R) having found this Nirvana in London and now suitably addicted). Then back on the bus to the Eiffel Tower. At this stage T and I ducked off and left my kids with T & R and jumped a taxi to go to the Musee D’Orsay to the Van Gogh’s I so love.

I dragged him through the museum, and we did see those stunning paintings, as well as a lot of Pissaro, Cezanne, Sisley (don’t like his stuff) and Degas. At the end of that both he and I were exhausted. So we jumped another cab to the hotel ‘just for a nap’ and woke up at 9:45pm! At that stage I went to collect the kids from T & R. We were meant to just nap, get changed and go out to dinner, but clearly we were so exhausted. Ho hum, next time then.

Part 6 to follow......