Paris, France
(written 3/3/2006 08:51 CET in Blois, France)
We fronted up for our final hotel breakfast and said a heartfelt thanks to the owner - we can certainly recommend
Hôtel de Nevers as a great place to stay with helpful owners if you are in Paris. He told us about plenty of interesting places to see as far away as Greece, including plenty of places we have already been.
Shouldering our rather heavy packs we trudged down to the Metro and caught a train to Europe Metro (it's tiny, no idea why it gets such a big name), and walked about ten minutes up Boulevard Constantinople to the
Citroën dealer. The girl there was very helpful and there was some minor half-hour delay while they changed the battery on the car, which she compensated is with by giving us a meal voucher for! Didn't expect that kind of service.
After plenty of paperwork she led us around the corner to our shiny blue
Citroën C3, with 5 kilometres on the clock!
The mechanic half-told half-mimed to us about how all sorts of gadgets inside the car worked, and then when we felt brave enough we drove off. Or, I should say when
I felt brave enough - Liz had given up on her idea of driving the car first after seeing what the Parisian traffic was like. Since we were on the outskirts it wasn't that bad, although learning the deep-end way how the big roundabouts work was a highlight for me.
We found our way to the ring road, and then we were moving onwards towards Versailles.