We are in France and it is amazing. I am trying to adapt to the keyboard but it is even crazier than the German ones- a's instead of q's, m's next to the l's and the comma/question mark where the m's should be, w's and z's switched, and not one punctuation mark where it belongs. I'm pretty impressed with how well I'm doing so far :-)
Anyway, we basically had one full day in Paris (arrived late Friday, left midday Sunday) and our one day back in Paris was just long enough to remind me of how very much I love Croque Monsieur (the french version of grilled cheese, basically) because it is ridiculously fantastic, and we got to go in the Opera house (it was closed last time we were there) and see an extra cathedral we hadn't seen before (the one King Louis IX built to hold the crown of thorns; it's about 80 percent stained glass windows) and we spent some time at Notre Dame and the Latin Quarter which were just as lovely as we'd left them. It really only takes one bite of the food in Paris to make the entire city seem like a paradise.
Sunday we took a train to Nice in the south of France and it was the most beautiful train ride I've taken in my entire life. Cannes was especially gorgeous to go through; it looked very much like Greece actually, except more colorful. Nice turned out to be kind of the French version of Venice beach, which was a bit funny. The food is super yummy even if
I can't find Croque Monsieur or Madame anywhere. *tear*
We've been spending our time in France as leisurely as possible because this past week and a half has been incredibly whirlwind and busy- four countries in I think a total of eight days! So today was spent at the beach instead of at museums and it was just delightful....and it was so fun; afterwards we climbed tons of steps up a hill (Castle Hill?) and it started to drizzle and by the top it was POURING, except it was a wonderful warm Mediterranean rain and we were all laughing and soaking wet as we slipped and slided in flip flops all the way back to the hostel.
Anyone following along with the itinerary might notice it's changed a bit- things were getting very rushed so we've been taking our time getting from Paris to Vienna and are landing there May 2nd, then doing Salzburg and landing in Florence on the 7th, then doing Rome, Venice, and Milan in that order.
I've really been enjoying the variety of walk/don't walk lights in all these countries, by the way; perhaps because in the US you never see a red standing man representing "don't walk!" In Paris the figures were tall and lanky but here they look more like the little yellow AOL dudes, except in red and green. My favorites were in Berlin because they wore hats. They kind of looked like they were smoking pipes as well but maybe I just associate that sort of hat with smoking a pipe.
Love you all bunches and bunches,
Sara
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