Sam & Georgia's Travels : Paris

We spent one night just outside of Paris, in the shiftiest place we have stayed so far. The Lemon Hotel cost us $28 for the night and was way overpriced. Even the logo, which was a lime not a lemon, was dodgy. Luckily we escaped without bedbugs and we were able to clean out the car and leave our unwanted/broken things in the car park.

Happy to leave behind the memory of the Lemon Hotel we headed into Paris. We drove into the city and found the apartment we are staying, which is an awesome little attic studio apartment in north Paris. It is a little bit of a dodgy area, but it’s still really cool. We are only about 500m down the road from Moulin Rouge.

Unfortunately the first thing we had to do in Paris was drop off our car! It was really sad to say goodbye to the car, we drove 15,000 km in it and leaving it felt like the end of a really fun, exciting and important part of our trip. However, though it felt like the end, we know we still have plenty to look forward too!

From there, we headed to the Louvre. It was amazing, it is absolutely massive! The building is incredible! Although are reading the Harry Potter series and going to the studios, we were quite disappointed that none of the pictures moved...

Our second day in Paris, we spent the entire day at the Saint Ouen Flea Markets. The antiques were amazing, and I loved all the vintage designer clothes. We both made a couple of purchases but we were content just wandering through the endless alley ways full of interesting things.

We walked along Champs Elysees and had a look at the very impressive Arc De Triomphe. Though Sam thought the round a bout didn’t look too intimidating, I was pretty happy we no longer had the car...

It was nice having lunch at a patisserie along Champs Elysees, although the area is packed with tourists.

On our last day in Paris it poured with rain. Luckily we had plenty of things we needed to get done before we headed to Moscow tomorrow! We had to sort through the massive build up of stuff we had, most of which we just left in a charity bin, and what we wanted to keep we packed into a box and sent home.

By the late afternoon the rain wasn’t so bad so we headed out.
We found an english book store who bought all our unwanted books for 22 Euro, which we were very happy with!
From there we walked along the river, which was surprisingly nice in the rain.

We locked a lock on the Love Lock bridge, which was pretty cool. Then we decided to keep walking along the river to the Eiffel Tower.
Since the weather was pretty horrible, the line to go to the top was tiny, so we decided that would be a nice way to end out time in Paris and Europe. We caught the elevator all the way to the top. The view was absolutely incredible, even with the the rain and fog. It gives such an incredible look at the entire city, which is so much bigger than it feels. It was cool to be able to point out the different place we had seen! Plus we can say we had a coffee in the Eiffel Tower!

We spent our last night packing all our things back into our packs, which was a lot harder than when we first packed them! An early night, since we are leaving for the airport tomorrow at 4:30am.
I can’t wait for Russia!