sethbc’s (infrequent) blog…

Right now I’m on my way from Munich to Budapest

First things first, we were going to go to Copenhagen, but we decided against it because we would have had to pay a supplement. The question then was where we should go after Paris. Paris is almost too big to get any good trains from. We decided to head to Munich and see what we wanted to do from there. We decided to head home.

I suppose that is putting the cart ahead of the horse somewhat.

London was awesome, though the weather was kind of crappy. Surprise, surprise! We did most of the touristy things in London, including a cruise on the Thames and one of the hop-on-hop-off tour busses. We didn’t eat quite as much in London as we did in Brussels, but between the Guinness, fish and chips, and bangers and mash, I don’t know that I could have eaten anything else. I really enjoyed London, though probably not as much as Brussels. Unfortunately we didn’t really have time to hit any museums, but we had a good time.

We then took the train from London to Paris, and I got one of those Su Do Ku puzzle books. The puzzles are insanely addictive!

Paris was a blast, and the weather was absolutely gorgeous.  As soon as we got in we checked in to our hotel. I’m telling you, I’ve never stayed in a smaller room. I’m not sure I’ve never seen a smaller room. Anyway, on Sunday we walked around Cité and Ste. Michel. We went inside Notre Dame, and just generally lounged around. Yes we had fondue. Yes it was excellent. That night we met Deborah at 20 o’clock for some drinks at a Brasserie. On Monday we really kicked the tourism into high gear. We took the Metro down to the Louvre with our Packs, and did a whirlwind tour of the Museum.  From the Louvre we walked through Tuleries to Place de la Concord, to the Arc de Triumph. From the Arc we walked down to the Eiffel Tower.

Newsflash, the cheese grater is still there, though the French considered dismantling it after the whole Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes thing.

After checking out the Eiffel Tower, we laid out in the park in front of Ecole Militaire for about an hour and a half. At 5 we met Deborah and Sam for drinks in Ste. Michel. Sam left for her Italian class at 7, and we stayed with Deborah until 10.

At 10:52 we got our train, and headed to Munich. I’ve got to say, its virtually impossible to sleep in one of the 2nd class train compartments. In the future, we’re going to try for at least some sleeping compartment. When we arrived this morning, we decided to just make it to budapest as fast as possible, so we could reset quickly.

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