Tuesday, August 16, 2005

week away from Germany - Day 8-10

That night we went to another bar, but we were getting tired of the little bars that we usually went to so, we had heard about this huge club, 7 dances floors different music on each, so we were set to go to it!! But on the way there, we met up with other people from the hostel who just were outside and the bouncer told them that it wasn't a very good night, so we went back to some other bar called Commo, it was pretty awesome, played some salsa, so i was able to salsa with Flor, that was pretty cool, we could have bar hopped for the rest of the night but Flor and I headed back to the hostel.
The next morning, Flor was heading back to Argentina so I woke early, I was soo tried but I wanted to see her off. THat day we walked around some more and then left Grant and Janelle, only later did I find out that Grant had booked a flight to Paris the day before so he was meeting us there!
We took the over night train to Paris, man it was bumpy, the other guys couldn't sleep, but I was able to sleep since, I had been up for most of the night. When we go to Paris, we headed right to the hostel checked in and then headed out beause we had to see as much as Paris in 28 hours!! So we started a the Eiffel tower then past the Chaillot palace and then to the Arc de Trio, then we walked down Champs Elysees a famous steet in Paris (we got Royals with Cheese), from there we walked to the PLace de la Concorde and then over to the Opera ohouse and then past the Louvre, we knew that it was free on the first Sun of each month so we polanned on heading back the next day, and then over to the Notre Dame. After that we were pooped and also had to meet up with Grant back at the hostel so off we went and relexed there with people fromthe hostel, mostly from the States but there were a couple Irish guy and one guy from Australia.
After drinking for a while we wanted to head to Moulin Rouge and that area, there are lots of clubs on the street, Boulevard de Clichy. On the way there, Sinco ( don't remember how to speel his name) started talking to these French girls, it was funny because they didn't really know English and him no french, so I was talking to the girls in French for him and in English to him for the girls. But they ended up coming with us to the bar area and we sat down and had a few drinks at a pub, then I went down to get some pictures before we headed to a club. Wel that was a dumb iodea because they are really expensive like 20 euros!! no thanks!! so we ended up going to a sit down club and getting this thing called an aquarium. It's a drink for people every one gets a straw and it's in a fish bowl, it was really yummy.
From there we headed back to the Eiffel tower to see it all lite up, but it was like 4 am so it wasn't lite up any more, BOOO!! oh well it was nice to see it at night and also we walked around, and then headed back to the hostel. Funny thing, it had a 2 am lock out and I think that we got back at about 5am but fortunatly someone was up and was able to let us in.
The next morning, it was up bright and early because the Louvre was free. Well, the line was huge, I mean like an thousand people, but fortuantly for us, they took our line into a door that just opened and we were in front of the Mona Lisa within 20 mins of getting there!! We thought if we didn't move in 20 mins we would leave! So we did a very quick tour of the good things and then headed back to the hostel, to say bye to Grant and then head to the train for the trip back to Mainz.
We got back to Mainz and packed up our stuff and started to watch a movie but I was way too tried to try and stay awake for it, so I went to bed.

But thats our trip to France and Spain, also concludes my trip to Europe!!!
I guess my next trip is to Argentina!!

Photos to be posted in the next couple days!!
Andrew