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Au revoir Paris, Goedendag Amsterdam
Katie headed back to Michigan yesterday (that would be Tuesday). We took her to Charles de Gaulle via metro and saw her through the security line, then headed off to Roissy-en-France to secure a hotel for our return to Paris next Sunday. Roissy, you may remember, is where we stayed the week we were stuck
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City of lights
Monday was Katie’s last day in Paris so Chuck opted to end things on a high note. More on that later. We started the day getting breakfast across the street from the apartment where the waitress is working on Chuck’s pronunciation. Yesterday’s lesson was “jus d’orange.” It’s pretty cute watching him struggle with the alien
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A little road trip, wait, make that un petit voyage!
Today we ventured outside of Paris to Katie’s number one request: Giverny (and is this not the cutest, quaintest website ever or what?!?). This was extra neat as neither Chuck nor I had ever been there. Our new BFF Stephane, our personal concierge (who we get to meet face to face tomorrow), arranged the whole
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Day of the (mostly) dead
As the title implies today we went places that were full of mostly dead stuff, other than the tourists. And the weather took a turn for the colder with highs in the mid 50’s. Brr! We started the day at Pere Lachaise Cemetery (and yes, there’s an app for it – in fact there are two.
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One foot in front of the other
Here it is, day three of Katie’s Semi-Grand Tour. Today we took on the Louvre (ooh, ahh!) and the Galeries Lafayette and Montmarte, Sacre Coeur and the red light district (should one capitalize “red light district?” one thinks not). It was a lot of ground to cover, but by gum we did it! And we
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Que la force soit avec toi!
For our second day in Paris, after a good night’s sleep, we decided to take on Disneyland Paris (formerly known as Euro Disney), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This was Katie’s choice. We were all, “Sniff, Disneyland Paris, Pshaw!” We too the metro to the RER then headed to the end of
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