When friends of ours said they’d be in Paris for a few days, we knew we wanted to make a trip to meet up with them. And we are glad we did. The weather was refreshingly cooler than what we’d been experiencing in Barcelona so it was a nice change for spending a few days…
Once we moved on from the luggage situation, or lack of luggage situation, we took a taxi to our hotel in the 2nd arrondissement for our last night in Paris. The hotel had an old-time feel and our room looked like it was out of Versailles. Our room also had a kick ass looking bar…
When we planned this trip, we found it more cost efficient to fly roundtrip from one city (rather than into Paris and out from Barcelona, for instance) and so that city was Paris. It also was one of the few where we could find a direct flight. After our stay in Menorca we had to…
Read part 1 about our morning at Versailles here. After visiting Versailles in the morning we started the second half of our day after a quick break at the hotel: A French Revolution Walking Tour! The map above traces our path on the tour. The tour started in the vicinity of the Les Invalides Metro stop,…
To start our third day in Paris, Nik and I headed out to visit the Palace of Versailles for a 10am tour. Buying the “skip the line” tickets for the tour was a great decision because the lines outside the palace were ridiculously long. The palace is sprawling and looks well maintained from the exterior….
Our second day in Paris ended up being fun, but it was supposed to be a day spent in Normandy. We more or less cut out Prague from the original idea of this trip and decided to stay three nights in each city, which in turn would allow us to do a full day trip to…