Euro Trip 2005

City Visit - Paris and London

Well then folks, I progressed from Nice, quite happily in a couchette train with some people with very smelly feet. Easily excited by the fact they give you earplugs, wetwipes, water and a clean sleeping bag. Also rather stupid New York lawyers for entertainment.

Upon my arrival to Paris at 7.30 I decided to make the most of being in Austerlitz and have a look around. I wander across the road only to stumble across a mammoth, a hog and a dinosaur, before realising that I have wandered semi-awake into the gardens of the natural history museum. Very fascinating place with rather noisy Panda and many Parisiens going for an early morning jog. I sit on a bench and eat the food I bought for dinner last night, an apple and a packet of rather tasty biscuits.

Spent most of the day sat on various benches in the Tuilerie gardens where I amused myself with watching how similar British and German tourists are, and getting chatted up by at least four weird French men (although none of them actually originated in France) and having a weird conspiracy-like conversation with an OAP from Chicago who had a black eye, broken glasses and a hat oddly like Pauls...

Spent my Euros down to the last 8 cents before heading back to sunny england, where those chavs (sorry to use it Dave) who had been to Live8 with the sound moral reasoning that the crime against humanity would be to not see Robbie and Madonna perform on the same stage, were phoning their friends to tell them how great it was.

Also fun was taking the train from the quaint Surrey town of Oxted with all its mock tudor and ye olde blockbusters to London on the same train that went to wimbledon on the day of the Men's final. Three in a row? Thats just greedy.

posted by Frank @ 8:05 AM