Day 16: Paris

After a long, loud, and hot train ride from Rome, we arrived in rainy and overcast Paris. We really had not planned this part of our trip in too much detail, so when we arrived in the train station we really had no idea where to go. The Metro was a little ways away from the station, but we found it and managed to get to our hotel. This hotel was not the best of our accommodations (actually the worst). The bathroom wasn't even on the same floor...we had to go down to the first level.

Unfortunately, our first day in Paris was tainted with credit card problems. For some reason both of our cards stopped working. Since the time difference is 9 hours to the States, we couldn't connect with anyone until their customer service opened. So that afternoon was quite stressful. We eventually got one working but not our ATM. One problem was that in Paris they have a Smartchip, so most vendors didn't even know how to use the American style credit card.

We did walk around Notre Dame and tour the inside. We didn't find the hunchback for some reason, but we did look! We decided to hold off on the Eiffel tower in hopes of a clearer day and once again that decision paid off in the end!


My bunk on the train


Notre Dame


A statue outside of Notre Dame




The front of Notre Dame