Aujourd'hui, nous avons eu un jour magnifique des velos!
To steal a phrase from my mother, today "was my dream" in so many ways! The jour started with un petit dejeuner a l'hotel. In America a "continental breakfast" means assorted cereals and stale bagels in the lobby of your Holiday Inn. Mais, en France, it is the most beautiful and delicious assortment of crossiants, baguettes, pain au chocolats, muselix, fruites, jambon, fromage, jus d'orange, cafe! Everything fresh, amazing, and served in a delightful petite salle off the lobby! It is a wonderous way to start to your morning, and just another example of how much better life in France is than life in America.
Alors, today was la jour d'aller a Versailles! I went to Versailles with Tre on our Paris trip of fabulousness 2 years ago, and it was defintely one of my favorite things we did because it is so beautiful and so interesting! Le Palais is quite magnifique, mais it is outshined by the 250 acres of jardins et le canal that follow! I cannot think of a word strong enough to describe how gorgeous it is to stand on the stairs in front of le palais and look out over everything! We walked through les jardins and along the canal until we found le plus mignon cafe de manger! It looked over the canal where people were row boating around! The only bad thing about lunch was that for some reason, my mom was being swarmed by bees! No one else in the outdoor cafe was even being bothered by them, but my mother was seriously being attacked - and since she has this awful fear of being stung, she was causing en scene and we had to move inside to finish! My Mom admitted that she did not like Versailles, but I think that was largely due the attack of the bees.
After mom nearly escaped death by bee, we started to walk towards le grand et le petit trianon (les domaines de Marie Antionette) and realized you could rent les velos to ride around! So of course we did! We had these adorable bikes to ride around tous les jardins and to get from place to place! It was magnifique because my parents couldn't complain about walking too much for a bit! J'adore les domaines de Marie. I kind of want to go back in time and be Marie. Aside from having my head cut off...and having all of France hate me. For some reason I am kind of obbsessed with her.
After Versailles, we took le metro to St. Michel where there is a giant fountain and tons of the cutest rues in Paris! It was en peu sad to be there without Tre because those are les rues where we spent our favorite nights eating fondue, drinking wine, and buying lots of bon bons! But it was a new kind of fun because of les velibs! Velibs are these cute velos that are all over Paris that you rent for 1 euro and ride around all day wherever you want, and then drop it off at any Velib stand! It is the most convienent and most fun way to get around Paris! We rented les velibs near the Quatier Latin, ve
loed along the Seine all the way to La Louvre and all around les jardins de tuileries with the sun shining, wind blowing in our hair, and la tour towering above! It was a dream come vrai! We veloed back to Rue de l'Harpe for diner, et puis all the way up the Seine to la tour! Right when we got to the tour it started sparking! Imagine riding your velo along the Seine on a beautiful Parisien night, the city lights are shining everywhere, you see the tour is close but you can't see it clearly, and then volia! There is the tour, HUGE, and SPARKLING right above you! I think there were tears in my eyes....
We starred in awe for beaucoup des moments, and then veloed around under the tour, around the tour. I wish you could velo on the tour! Then we got glace and stood under the tour eating our glace and being in love with Paris. We veloed back to l'hotel et le jour magnifique des velos etait fini!
I am never leaving Paris.
To steal a phrase from my mother, today "was my dream" in so many ways! The jour started with un petit dejeuner a l'hotel. In America a "continental breakfast" means assorted cereals and stale bagels in the lobby of your Holiday Inn. Mais, en France, it is the most beautiful and delicious assortment of crossiants, baguettes, pain au chocolats, muselix, fruites, jambon, fromage, jus d'orange, cafe! Everything fresh, amazing, and served in a delightful petite salle off the lobby! It is a wonderous way to start to your morning, and just another example of how much better life in France is than life in America.
Alors, today was la jour d'aller a Versailles! I went to Versailles with Tre on our Paris trip of fabulousness 2 years ago, and it was defintely one of my favorite things we did because it is so beautiful and so interesting! Le Palais is quite magnifique, mais it is outshined by the 250 acres of jardins et le canal that follow! I cannot think of a word strong enough to describe how gorgeous it is to stand on the stairs in front of le palais and look out over everything! We walked through les jardins and along the canal until we found le plus mignon cafe de manger! It looked over the canal where people were row boating around! The only bad thing about lunch was that for some reason, my mom was being swarmed by bees! No one else in the outdoor cafe was even being bothered by them, but my mother was seriously being attacked - and since she has this awful fear of being stung, she was causing en scene and we had to move inside to finish! My Mom admitted that she did not like Versailles, but I think that was largely due the attack of the bees.
After mom nearly escaped death by bee, we started to walk towards le grand et le petit trianon (les domaines de Marie Antionette) and realized you could rent les velos to ride around! So of course we did! We had these adorable bikes to ride around tous les jardins and to get from place to place! It was magnifique because my parents couldn't complain about walking too much for a bit! J'adore les domaines de Marie. I kind of want to go back in time and be Marie. Aside from having my head cut off...and having all of France hate me. For some reason I am kind of obbsessed with her.
After Versailles, we took le metro to St. Michel where there is a giant fountain and tons of the cutest rues in Paris! It was en peu sad to be there without Tre because those are les rues where we spent our favorite nights eating fondue, drinking wine, and buying lots of bon bons! But it was a new kind of fun because of les velibs! Velibs are these cute velos that are all over Paris that you rent for 1 euro and ride around all day wherever you want, and then drop it off at any Velib stand! It is the most convienent and most fun way to get around Paris! We rented les velibs near the Quatier Latin, ve
loed along the Seine all the way to La Louvre and all around les jardins de tuileries with the sun shining, wind blowing in our hair, and la tour towering above! It was a dream come vrai! We veloed back to Rue de l'Harpe for diner, et puis all the way up the Seine to la tour! Right when we got to the tour it started sparking! Imagine riding your velo along the Seine on a beautiful Parisien night, the city lights are shining everywhere, you see the tour is close but you can't see it clearly, and then volia! There is the tour, HUGE, and SPARKLING right above you! I think there were tears in my eyes....We starred in awe for beaucoup des moments, and then veloed around under the tour, around the tour. I wish you could velo on the tour! Then we got glace and stood under the tour eating our glace and being in love with Paris. We veloed back to l'hotel et le jour magnifique des velos etait fini!
I am never leaving Paris.
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