Wed 13 May 2009 Another beautiful day in Paris. We caught the Metro into the 1st district, we then walked to the Louvre, where we spent about 3 hours walking around, we selected a few areas we really wanted to see (If you look at every single piece in the Louvre with no toilet or food breaks it will take you 64 days to see everything). We saw the Greek, Roman and Egyptian sections, the Venus De Milo, Mona Lisa and many other less famous pieces of art. We the...

We had a huge day of sight seeing today.We caught the metro (underground train) into district 1 (the city centre) to go on a walkig tour, the guide Jack took us through the city and showed us most of the tourist attractions. We started at St Michel's fountain and headed to the nearby police precinct, which was the Nazi headquarters during WWII, There are still bullet holes in the wall from where the French resistance fired at the building, these are the only mar...

Arrival to Paris We caught the Eurostar from St Pancras train station, London to Paris De Nord this morning at 6:55am, it took just over 3 hours to commute. I didn't even see the English Channel Tunnel as I was sleeping and it only took 20 minutes to pass through, Jason said I didn't miss much! We were not in the train station 5 minutes before a begger came up trying to scam us for money. once we left the train station, we walked 20 minutes to get to St Chris...