Thurs 16th April - Sat 18th AprilArtistic ParisI woke this morning to have a little mid trip mental breakdown. I think my brain was telling me that it had had enough. We'd been going so full on for almost two weeks, and I just wanted to relax. So instead of relaxing, Dan dragged me to the most full on place in all of Paris. The Louvre. We got organised and headed to the centre of Paris and made our way into the Louvre and the famous glass pyramid. We had to join...

Back to the streets of ParisWeds 15th AprilAfter the sugar high of Disneyland we were back into the traditional Paris sights. First stop today was our second try at the Catacombs. They were most certainly open, and it was easy to tell the second we stepped out of the metro station. The queue of people went around the block. We jumped in the very slow moving queue and waited patiently. We finally made it to the entrance to the little green shack on the side of the...

The Happiest Place On Earth13th and 14th AprilWahoo! Disneyland Paris (Apparently it has not been called Euro Disney for quite some time now). I had been waiting for this for so long. I was just looking forward to have fun; No culture, religion, history or education. The train took about 40 minutes to get to Parc Disneyland, and we headed straight for the ticket counter. Because we had pre bought rail tickets through Rail Europe, they had a deal going that gave y...

More Parisian Icons (Napoleon's day out) - Day 312th April 2009Up for another big day in Paris, we got organised and had our day planned out. We thought we'd avoid churches and religious monuments today, we'd figured that Easter Sunday is a religious day for some, and we wouldn't want to impose (but also because I was becoming a little churched out). First stop was going to be the catacombs (details on what this is later), so we walked down to the metro and took ...

Intense Paris - Day 211th April 2009We were up early and on the train to the Musee de O'rsay. We knew that we needed to arrive early to avoid the crowds, but we were wrong. We were there 20 minutes before opening and there was already people crowding around everywhere. We jumped over to the little café for a breakfast baguette; 20 Euros for two baguettes and some juice. Wow - Paris is expensive. Plus when we were here I got a firm finger shaking from our waiter...