Dear all,
The day started not so late, around 8h30. Isabelle was a bit late to go to work and as for me I find it pointless to be resting while there is a great city out there to explore.
However, blogging and editong pictures took me longer than I thought, so I was only out of home close to 13h.
There is a velib station right at Isabelle's door (that somehow I haven't noticed yesterday!), so finding my first ride of the day was simple.
I decided to head to the Louvre and the Champs Elises, and I stopped somewhere in the middle to swap bike and avoid the cost of rental. The only thing was that close to the Louvre all docks were taken so I needed to wait for someone to take a bike and I was late to return it for a few minutes, so here there are not excuses. Anyway, 1€ from la vilette till the louvre and not walking it is really a bargain :)
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| Taking the underground? Not this time! |
On my way I found out that they have a car sharing system. It is called Autolib. It is a bit more complex, as you need to go to a main station to validate your driving licence and I do not know if it is that easy. Anyway, the cars are electric ones and I am willing to google it later one and maybe tomorrow I will try that!
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| Autolib in Paris! |
At the gardens close to the louvre it is not allowed to cycle, so I took a walk.
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| Scared Peter Lamb? |
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| Peter Lamb @ Hotel du Louvre! I do prefer couchsurfing! |
In front of the louvre it is a lot of people, all trying to get the best shot. Due to the intespnse heat there is a lot of people seizing the fountains to cool down!
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| PeterLamb@Louvre |
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| Same place, different shot |
It is a long walk till the Arc de Triomphe, but lets give it a try:
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| Arc de Triomphe really far away |
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| PeterLamb is ready for a big walk! |
On the way to the champs elises I found a nice car to be rented!
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| Unfortunatly you cannot drive it till Portugal! :) |
I planned to walk all the way up to arc du triomphe, but then I thought: "there are a bunch of guys cycling around France to cycle on the chapns elises, and I will take a walk? No way!!
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| PeterLamb & Tour de France |
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| Velib on champs elises |
On the way towards the arc du triomphe, I found a quite nice small garden!
The arc du triomphe is something quite impressive, as its size is quite massive!
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| PeterLamb @ Arc du Triomphe |
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| Monument to the unknown soldier |
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| PeterLamb. @ Champs Elises |
I decided to take a walk from that point towards Trocadero, where you have a great view towards Eiffel Tower.
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| Eiffel tower seen from Trocadero |
I just needed to take my typical flying picture from this spot. Not ao easy, as the amount of people in here is impressive!
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| Peter Lamb flying |
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| Peter Lamb flying |
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| PeterLamb @ the Eiffel Tower |
When crossing the road, I saw a chance of a good photo! Like it?
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| Hopefully one day it will be true! :) |
At this moment I decided to head slowly home, as Isabelle should be out of her work soon and we settled to meet and have dinner with her friend Jean Phillippe.
I have seen a lot of live shows and street music, but ai guess it was the first time to see one guy plaing his piano on the street!
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| Street music with piano! :) |
After I left my bike at the closest station, i walked till the restaurant they had chosen. Impressive how many people comes to this place with food to share amoung friends! Super cool!
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| La Villette |
Dinner was very very nice, in a place that is called Camarade Boris, a comuniste inspired restaurant, but really cool atmosphere! To be honest, when I was going towards the restaurant, I was feeling somehow "aprehensive" lets say. Afterall, I was joining Isabelle and Jean Phillippe for a dinner, and it could be just akward, if the conversation was going to be something that could make any of us unconfortable, or a huge silent would come up. Basically, what a stupid feeling!! Some minutes were enough to see that would be a very relaxed evening with two great people, who was so easy to talk to.
It turned out to be pretty nice, as Jean Phillippe is a truly Parisien, and Isabelle is not. Anyway, no hard feeliengs, Jean, but If time would go back again, I would choose Isabelle to host me! :)
Food was good, french wine even better, but company was just great. Once more, the same feeling: "yeah, good to be in the city, sightseeing (and biking!!) and so on, bit nothing beats the company of this nice people to share this evening with". Thanks a million guys!
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| Jean Phillippe, Isabelle and Peter Lamb :) |
What is great tends to make the time to shrink, so after one more drink in a bar (Porto, of course!!), there was time to go "Home".
Still some nice talk with Isabelle, but 3:30 AM came too quickly and that is more than time to sleep!
That is all for now folks!
Best,
Peter
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