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WOW that was a huge blackout….sorry!! You all can expect another one for a day or two when the server gets moved back to Surrey. Super_huge

Thanks to MILES!!

for being super cool and getting it fixed for us. Apparenly, it had a lot of viruses…

So, we have a lot to update you on!! Our last post was from our last day in London/Windsor, and since then we have been to many places! Let’s see… we took the Eurostar to Paris, and since we missed the early train, we didn’t make it there until the afternoon. We met our Paris host, Pierre-Yves (an engineer for Peugeot ) and he took us around Paris__ a few nice parks and the Notre Dame, and the City Hall.. We learned very quickly that Paris is LE HUGE! And very charming, I love it very much

On our second day there, we did the Paris thing: Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe, Baguettes and the Louvre. The Louvre is also HUGE; there is no way that we could have seen it all, I think, even though we were practically running… thank GOODNESS it wasn’t all paintings @__@;;; a lot of interesting stuff there.

The third day, the weather was suckety suck suck as usual so we decided to focus on Indoorsy things. We went first to a French department store– much like Sack’s fifth avenue in New York__ we went to see a heavily advertized Lingerie display– but it was not as “ooh la la!” as we had expected We did see a funny shirt that said ” Miss– your future is showing!”

Then we decided to track down Sacr頃oeur __ a huge church that we saw from the peak of the Eiffel Tower– it’s all white and at the top of a hill. I really recommend it, the architecture was Fantastic!! I bought an informative book about it

From there we went to the “Maison des invalides”__ a french war museum which was pretty nice…not as nice as the British one, but what made the trip worth it was the Tomb of Napoleon. Let me tell you– what a fantastically huge tomb! SO elaborate and Romanesque… definitely worth the trip.

We made a quick stop at Notre Dame but it is so touristy that nobody has any respect for the beautiful sanctuary that it truly is ;____; Then we ate crepes.

Then, on our quest to go to the Normandy beaches, we decided to make a two day side- trip to Caen. It’s really a beautiful city… huge churches. Trevor bought a triple set of Katana with stand for 20? XD… just for the irony, and I tried Turkish delight We decided to go on a 67? guided tour of the beaches. Pricey, yes, but totally worth it. After both looking into price of a car rental and going on the trip and seeing how way out all of these places are and far apart and backroady– we never could have done it ourselves. And so much has eroded away, the sights would be useless w/o a guide. PLUS it was a car with only six people on the tour and our guide was a very well informed and dynamic Irishman. The tour went to Omaha beach, a few german gun battery sites, the American, Canadian AND German war cemeteries…. but no Juno beach … altho, we did learn a LOT about that one Canadian infantry… did you know that the Canadians penetrated the farthest on D-Day (16km) and were the ones that liberated Caen? You see a LOT of Canadian flags in this area… the people are indeed very grateful and still very aware of what happened.

We stayed the night at a cute little inn, and the next day tramped across town in the pouring rain to see the Museum that came with the tour. Then we trained back to Paris….

We had intended to train to Switzerland that night, but people on the tracks delayed the train so much that we ended up crashing on PYves again ( who rocks !!). So, we bought a railpass and are going to Switzerland tonight!

So, now your are all caught up ^_^… there are many new pictures in the gallery… in London and also in a big Paris gallery. No Caen pictures yet because we are having problems with our USB thing…. hopefully it is temporary. Also, there is video!
Down the eiffel tower elevator
Traffic around the Arc de Triomphe
A French changing of the guard

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