Bonjour mes amis!
On 21st April, me and my many cohorts (otherwise known as people in my year that took French) took a trip to Paris. We went for a long weekend, it was very romantic. I felt a distinct connection to every single one of them, I now feel I can confide anything in them. Joking.
Although most of my friends went, there were quite a few.. Non-friends, shall we say, that also embarked on this journey of a life-time. Moving on, before I start ranting and talking complete bananas.
We got on the coach at 00.30. Yes. You read that right. Half past midnight, on the Saturday morning. We arrived at our hotel at around 10.30, which wasn't too bad because most people got to sleep a bit on the coach, then everyone was fresh-faced and ready to face a whole day of grimy tubes and fabulous landmarks.
We took the "metro" (but I shall call it the tube) to the Montparnasse tower. For those who don't know, it's basically a huge building that looks a bit like one of the world trade centers, and from the top you can see the whole of Paris. I suppose it's better than going up the Eiffel tower because you actually get to SEE the Eiffel tower. It was alright, although I've broken the zoom on my phone so the Eiffel tower is merely a dot on the horizon.
After that, we went to see the Eiffel tower up close. It was possibly one of the greatest sights I have ever seen. Seriously, it was (probably still is) huge! We were all so touristy though, we all stood in front of it and had our "group photo" taken on about 17 different camera bearing devices. I think everyone else hated us. We were hogging the Tour Eiffel.
Once we had finished being embarrassingly tourist-like, we headed down to get a better look at the Eiffel tower. We were walking down the steps and, all of a sudden, these 5 guys made everyone sit down whilst they threatened us with guns. I joke. They were dancing. It was so cool! Nothing like that would happen in London.
It was so funny though, most girls had bought fake, French manicured nails (when in Paris, and all that...) but I was there with my REAL nails. I spent the majority of the trip showing people my nails because I was so proud of them. How truly, wonderfully, fantastically spiffing!
Most of the trip was spent sight-seeing. We saw; the Louvre, all the bridges along the Seine, Notre Dame, L'arc de triomphe, the Sacre Coeur and lots of other... Things. I can't remember everything we saw.
One thing I know for sure is that it was magical and I'm going to go back very, very, very soon.
Au revoir!
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