Thursday, December 06, 2007
Back from Paris!!! I know I wanted a new camera to replace my uber old 3 mega pixel one, but I realised during this trip that I'm not a very photographic person and getting a new cam would just be a waste of money. Paris was exciting I guess. The architecture was incredible, but shopping was an utter disappointment.
Let's start with the hotel I was checked into. The internet pictures were so deceiving, and when we got there we realised that it was a old hotel. To give you a rough idea of how old it was, it had the olden day lift where you had to open the door with your hand. I guess that was cool in a way. We visited the usual tourists sites, the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles, the museum mentioned in the Da Vinci book, not sure of its name, but we saw the Mona Lisa, and personally I expected more. The picture was so small. I guess I'll never truly appreciate the arts. To be honest all the pictures looked the same to me I had no idea why the Mona Lisa was so special.
My mum visited the LV shop. It was an entire building!! And it was not too bad I guess. The service was really good, according to my mum. They would serve you and only you until you left the shop. Other than that, the shopping wasn't really very great. Perhaps I just had very high expectations. We didn't get much of a chance to try the french food, because we spent most of our lunches in the tour sites. For dinner we went round hunting for Jap or Chinese food. I know it's sad, but we did find a good small Chinese eatery. We also spent most of our nights playing scrabble as a family. Lucky I bought that before the flight or I have no idea how we would spend our nights. French TV is so boring. Partly because I don't understand french.
OK, that's a very short summary of my trip, but I will post more when I get the pictures up. Currently I'm still suffering from jet lag. I hate that feeling, and now I hate long flights. Glad to be back.
Dan
11:49 pm
