Our Apartment, Notre Dame & St. Michel

Our apartment was located 1/2 block from Notre Dame, located on the 5th floor at 39, rue Galande, 75005 PARIS.

 

On our first day in Paris, we strolled around our area, had some gelato, went inside Notre Dame, and had dinner at a quiet cafe.

Below: The first picture is Amanda in front of the Notre Dame. The second is Notre Dame, and the third picture is a fountain of St. Michel, located just a few blocks from our place, and its where the metro stop is located. 

 

Notre Dame

St Michel

  

LONDON and Spamalot!

We get to London on Monday with a one night layover before heading to Paris. We arrived in London at 1:00, went through customs/passport control and checked into our our hotel (near the Heathrow airport).

After a 10 hour flight we wanted to freshen up before taking the tube to the City. In London we didn't ge much time to do much... walked around Leichester Square, ate dinner at a pub and then caught the 8:00 performance of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre.

After the show we walked around some more, saw Picadilly Circus, had some coffee at Cafe Nero and then took the tube back to the hotel.

Tuesday, June 24
We woke up at 7:00 am and had breakfast with my dear friend Jacqui at the hotel, before heading to Paris. Jacqu dropped us off at the tube, which we took to get to the Eurostar Chunnel (at Kings Cross/ Pancras station) to get to Paris. The trip took about 2 hours, and we traveled in 1st class, which was very nice.

Here is Amanda and me sitting in our "Chunnel" seats and with what's left of our lunch. Lunch was not bad, and we also had a snack and drinks as part of our fare.

Paris... Here we come?

 

Taking Amanda to Paris as her gradutation gift.

June 22, 2008
We're heading off to Paris... via London!

It was cheaper to fly from LAX into London ($500 cheaper!). Ironically we are flying Air France to get to London, only to take the chunnel to get to Paris. Go figure.Here is the 3 of us as we are heading out to the airport. Right now we are all clean, bright eyed and bushy tailed... ready to sit for 10 hours.