Paris Part II

The first night we walked around the city – from the Latin Quarter, up to the Notre Dame, over to the Louvre, and back to the Latin Quarter on the other side of the river. The next day we headed to Pere Lachaise, a famous and extremely large graveyard (it sounds much more morbid writing it out than actually visiting it). Many famous people including Chopin, Proust, and Jim Morrison, are buried there and it’s a pretty big tourist attraction. After Pere Lachaise, we went to the top of the Notre Dame where there are spectacular views of the entire city and you’re able to see inside one of the bell towers. After lingering at the top enjoying the view for a while, we headed back down and walked over to the Eiffel Tower area where we bought dinner which consisted, again, of bread and croissants. On our way back to the Latin Quarter, we happened to pick up a brochure for Disneyland Paris, so early the next morning we caught an early train and arrived at Disneyland in time for opening. We stayed in Disneyland for the whole day and, of course, went on many, many rides, I think around 15 in total, with the highlight of course being Buzz Lightyear, although it was not the same ride and unfortunately I didn’t max out, but got relatively close. After having lived in a foreign country for the past couple of months, it was nice to be somewhere where we understood things a bit more. Disneyland was set up in a very similar way to the Magic Kingdom in Florida, only some of the lands were switched around and had slightly different names (for instance, Tomorrowland became Discoveryland). We stayed until closing at 10:00PM and headed back to the center of Paris. Although it might seem strange that we decided to spend a whole day while in Paris at Disneyland, I'm very glad to have gone, it was a lot of fun! The next day, we had a few hours before we had to start heading to Barcelona, so we grabbed some breakfast, which was, yet again, bread and croissants, and went to a large park in the Latin Quarter.

At around noon, we headed onto the metro and found our way to the bus that would take us on the 90km journey to the airport, but more on that in a couple of days. I have to get to bed as I will be waking up early to catch a train to go to Florence! I apologize in advance if something in this doesn’t make sense or there are a vast amount of typos, as I did not get a chance to read it over yet.

I hope all is well back home.