Two days in Paris

My weekend in PAris was very full - I feel like a major name-dropper but I was so very grateful to have the chance of being there and grateful to Anne for letting me share her apartment and showing me the Paris she had enjoyed. After learning French at school for 5 years all those years ago at school, this was my first time hearing it spoken by real French people.

It would take ages to write about all we saw and i don't wish to bore people, but songs like "I love PAris in the Springtime", "under the bridges of PAris with you"... all came to mind.

I loved Notre Dame - especially the flying buttresses - and to think Napoleon walked there, as did the kings of France!

Sainte Chappelle was beautiful, we saw where Marie Antoinette was incarcerated at the Conciergerie before she was beheaded, enjoyed riding on the river admiring the beautiful architecture of Paris, loved wandering the streets, eating Snails ( sorry escargots), the incredible Museum of the Middle Ages with gorgeous tapestries and the remains of Roman bathhouse....

Then to top it all off, Sunday was Versailles - in temperatures over 30 degrees. Wow - could just see Leonardo di Caprio, the Sun king Louis XIV, strolling the corridors, waving to the common people from the balconies and the incredible gardens and fountains. Fantastic decadence, no wonder the common French people rebelled....

Quick trip under the Eiffel Tower ( queue to go up was over an hour and a half), paid my homage at the Arc de Triomphe and then flopped!

Yes, I would love to go back - maybe if I get very lucky ...

Then out to the airport the next morning - thunder and lightning- wasnt I lucky getting such beautiful weather for my weekend in Paris!

Long trip home via AbuDhabi and Etihad Airways ( nice!) - did get some sleep. Landed back in Sydney and then up early the next morning to go to NZ to shift house!

Adrenalin keeps you going !