Paris

Day 5

Bonjour mes amies!

We caught the 8.40 train to Paris and this was my first time on the Eurostar. It is a great ride! Really comfortable and so fast! We managed to have a quick croissant and latte before we left and two and half hours later we arrived at Gare Du Nord in the bitter Parisien cold!

We sped to the restaurant that Rus had booked and met a very good friend from Zimbabwe there. Gail lives in Paris and it was a superb lunch together catching up with the news of all our common friends from Zimbabwe who are now all over the world. The restaurant is called L’Avenue and it was filled with beautiful French women! The waitresses weren’t bad either and according to Gail only chosen for their looks!!

We had a car arranged after lunch to take us on a short sight seeing journey around Paris because it would have been difficult for my Mom to walk in the cold weather. Unfortunately the man who should have ferried us was out of Paris so we had his brother in law who not only spoke nothing but French but didn’t know the city as well as he should have and so although we saw most of the sights I didn’t get to see the Eiffel Tower…Imagine that!! Have to laugh now but we certainly weren’t when it looked like we may miss the train home because he had no idea where he was!!

All part of the experience and we had a great day arriving back in London at 10.00pm!

Carpe Diem