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Paris – Day One

07 Sep in Brush Cottage | Comments (2)

David, Tessa and I went off to Paris last week. We’ve never used the Eurostar before, so it was a bit of an adventure! We loved the new St Pancras station, what a sleek, elegant and modern station – Gare du Nord pales in comparison – Yay! 1 to the U.K.

Our little hotel was in the Latin Quarter, we were a bit nervous as we thought that it might only have play play stars….. and it was an old building and a bit run down, but they would allow Tessa in the room with us and were such very nice people and most importantly- it was wonderfully situated – literally 5 minutes walk from Notre Dame. We left our baggage in our room and wondered down to the Cathedral. What an amazing building, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, which took over 2 centuries to finish with a sense of lightness and grace that comes from it’s flying buttresses and remarkable filigree work. We climbed the 400 steps of the bell towers for the view over the City – and what a view! Paris is a breathtakingly beautiful city!

paris

Then we went off onto the other island, to Berthillion, for what is renowned as being the best ice-cream in France, and it certainly earns it’s reputation – I had a scoop of coffee and a scoop of chocolate and it was delicious.

We wandered up through the Latin Quarter, to the Jardin du Luxembourg , passed the beautiful Pantheon and then went for dinner at Les Fontaines, where we had a delicious meal – I know David and I both had fish, but my french is non existant, so who knows what fish it actually was! Our waitress was very kind and tried to explain the menu as best she could, but a lot of it was down to sign language and animal sounds……..

During the day, Tessa and I did get up close to one of those gorgeous frenchmen you hear all about……..

Kiss

2 Comments »

  1. I am so jealous… what a wonderful thing to do… and
    Jen … why change what works…. coffee and chocolate….could one ask for anything more…

    PS am now and Aunty… :-) will send pics if you like as soon as I get some… Rachel Leigh

    Comment by Heather — September 9, 2009 @ 6:11 pm

  2. Truly heavenly ice-cream in a heavenly place! Congratulations Aunty Heath! How exciting – blessings to the Mum and Dad – send pics! Another girl in the family – what more could you want!?

    Comment by Jenni — September 9, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

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