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...

Sunday 14th/Monday 15th. Our last day in Rome, taking our time packing and checking out of the hotel and down to the local patisserie for brunch and then decided to wander around the town that we had been living in for the last few days, eventually going back to the hotel and waiting till time to get moving, this was a bit of a lost day as our train didn't leave till 7.20pm The train left Rome on time and this was a high speed train travelling at 300 km per hou...