I Louvre Paris

The start of our 9-week adventure in Europe consisted of crossing the waters from England to France. We recommend Speedferries, because it was cheap and fast. The toll for the highway to Paris then cost us about 27 Euros, which made us decide that we will not go on a tollway again. Anyway we got to our campsite, Blois de Boulonge which is on the edge of inner paris, and I mean it only took us about 30 minutes to get to the Louvre.. we slept in our van right by the Seine among Europeans from all over, including a bunch of Irish rugby-crazy guys who had a converted bus painted with cartoons of rugby players and something Irish.



We spent 4 nights in this elegant city. The most impressionable thing about the Notre Dame (big cathedral) was the beggars at the gates.. it's free to get in, so you just give to the beggars instead - not a bad deal, we thought.







The next day I did the Louvre (yes, i was there from 10am-6pm and still only saw about 60% of it), arguably the only museum you need to go to in Europe, while Rachel checked out Musee de'Orsay where they have lots paintings by Van Gough and Monet. We got to catch up with Jo and her Dale family from Mt Tamborine, who holidayed in America, visited Micah and Marte in Norway and were in Paris for a few days on the way back to Australia. It was cool to catch up. Mr Dale went to L'Abri in Switzerland where we plan to be in a few weeks time.






We also caught up with Michelle, a french lady Rachel befriended in Bangkok. She took us out for a drink and delicious French dinner. The rest of our time in Paris was spent walking around admiring the autumn leaves, buildings, and little things like the Cafe Amelie works at in the film, and find quieter areas to avoid tour groups.