It was an early start this morning, filled with the frantic shoveling and squashing down of toiletries into my suitcase as well as the odds and ends I wasn't able to categorise during the night and had left out for further pondering. No time for pondering now, I've got a bus to catch! In it goes! Stuff, stuff, stuff, squeeze, zip? Nope, stuff, squeeze, squeeze, zip? Zip! Run, taxi, drive, drive, arrive, YAY!
The first part of our trip is a 'short' bust trip to the white cliffs of Dover to meet the ferry for our trip into gay Paris. The white cliffs of Dover are very white. Very, very white. There's this image in your head on how you think they look. Now make those cliffs whiter. No, whiter still. There we go, that's about right. Of course I'm an idiot and I was to baffled getting pushed through passport control and then searching for breakfast once I got onboard I forgot to take pictures. Yet another fail.
Oh well, next we jump on another bus and drive through the French countryside. I have never seen land so.. so.. flat! The horizon seems forever away and all you can see is fields of green growing things and sometimes yellow growing things I think the peasants call 'Wheat'.. or some similar sort of grain type ....thing. The country is beautiful, lush fields stretching as far as you can see. Every hour or so we past through a town. The building are all made from ornate carved stone, even the cheap shacks. The architecture of even the boring run-of-the-mill houses is astounding.
We arrive in Paris just before dinner time and settle into our rooms. Downstairs the kitchen staff lay out bowls of French onion soup, escargot tasters and some.. creamy chicken rice concoction. All delicious. Escargot is like eating a small piece of garlic calamari. OM NOM NOM MORE PLEASE! Then it's back on the bus for a night time tour of Paris even though it's not quite night yet despite it being 8:30pm. Don't worry, I took a bunch of photos. Most of them blurry but I'll sort them out tomorrow. For now it's time for bed to rest up for a long day or art appreciation, shopping, bike riding and fancy foods.
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