Paris, France
(written 27/2/2006 5:30pm CET by Liz)
Yesterday was very cold. A message from my Mum said it was -2 degrees C in Paris, and it certainly felt like our coldest day here so far. It snowed lightly for most of the morning.
After breakfast at our hotel, we caught the Metro to Trocadéro near the Eiffel Tower, and spent a while looking around. We decided not climb up part of the tower, and instead headed into the backstreets of 15e to wander around. We stopped in a little bar for coffee and hot chocolate to warm up, wandered some more, bought baguette and cheeses for our lunch, and then caught the metro from La Motte-Picquet Grenelle back to République where our hotel is.
Lunch was in our nice warm room, and we devoured baguette, cheese, olives and red wine - very French. We lazed around in our room for the afternoon feeling a bit worn out and footsore.
In the evening, we went to a nearby Belgian restaurant and had beer, frites and moules (chips and mussels), another very tasty meal, and then end of another great day.