Contiki Day 2 - Paris

Funny thing happened this morning... I woke up and we were in Paris!! Wow how cool is that. Niether Row or I were on breakfast duty, so it was off for a shower and dressed for brekkie. Damn good brekkie too. Everyone cleaned up and we got on the bus bound for the Cheateau de Versailles...

The funny thing was before we actually left camp a French tour group´s bus had got a flat battery so we tried to help them out... silly french were watching movies in the bus all night...

Anyway off to Versailles, it took about an hour from Paris, wow it was large and so was the queue to get in. Row and I waited in the queue for 1.5 hours, others decided to go in the exit and got in within minutes... I kinda wish I had too, but that´s life. We didn´t really get enough time inside the palace, but we got around all the rooms, it was only the last couple of rooms that we had to rush through to ensure we got back to the bus in time. The ceiling paintings were amazing, although the wall paintings weren´t as good as we´ve seen in England in my opinion, but that could be because I can follow the English Royalty, but not the French... I´m still really glad I went in.

Back on the bus at 3.30pm, heading back into Paris to the Effil Tower. Didn´t have to wait long, but we went up the stairs, not the lift. You could only walk up to the 2nd level viewing platform (about 600+ stairs)... Amazing views. We then paid to go up to the very top. It was a long way up, but the views were so amazing. I´m so pleased we went right to the top, you´ll be able to see pictures when we post them, we can´t do that from this cafe unfortunately. We took lots of photos and then came back down the lift to the 2nd viewing platform and then took the stairs down to the bottom which didn´t take half as long as going up. We brought an ice cream (Mr Whippy) at the bottom and then got on the bus to go to dinner.

We got changed in the Louvre carpark and walked up to dinner. Dinner was really nice, had some wine, Row had the duck and I had beef for dinner. After dinner we were picked up for a caberet show. Interesting, some of the girls did some of the dances topless, not that they had much to look at, but the tapeeze artist was amazing. Overall really glad we went.

Got back to camp about 1am, it was a great day in Paris, right now we´re both really glad we did this tour. Paris is amazing, well except for the queues.