Friday 19th Our time in Paris is drawing to an end with only two full days left, so this morning it was off the Catacombs, we had been advised to get there early as they open at 10am and only allow 200 people in at a time, and the waiting time can be up to three hours long, so lucky enough when we did arrive the line was good, while in line we got talking to a young girl with a baby and found out she was from New Zealand and the baby (Molly) was only 5 months ol...

Wednesday night Our washing was starting to pile up so we decided that we would visit the laundromat just around the corner, even though neither of us had used one before but how hard can it be, well we didn't count on the instructions being  in French, totally lost, clothes in the washer but how do you get soap and how do you turn the machine on? thankfully a man was doing his washing and after watching us for a while he must have realized that these two blond...

Our hotel, while very centrally located is a typical Paris room, fairly small and bathroom even smaller, the only problem is that it has no air conditioning and though we can open the windows the street noise is loud, the result one restless night, And today the plan was to go to the top of the tower, now I can tell you I like my feet planted firmly on the ground, I do not like heights, especially if there is no glass or walls around me and I am open to the eleme...

Our hotel, while very centrally located is a typical Paris room, fairly small and bathroom even smaller, the only problem is that it has no air conditioning and though we can open the windows the street noise is loud, the result one restless night, And today the plan was to go to the top of the tower, now I can tell you I like my feet planted firmly on the ground, I do not like heights, especially if there is no glass or walls around me and I am open to the eleme...

Our hotel, while very centrally located is a typical Paris room, fairly small and bathroom even smaller, the only problem is that it has no air conditioning and though we can open the windows the street noise is loud, the result one restless night, And today the plan was to go to the top of the tower, now I can tell you I like my feet planted firmly on the ground, I do not like heights, especially if there is no glass or walls around me and I am open to the eleme...