pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
Curious to see how your experience with that was...“English??”- Paris Day 1
I think it's on the other side of the ocean. Could be wrong.If you don’t know much about France,
I did not know this! Huh!Most of the French (particularly Parisians) take either the entire month of July or August off.
Interesting... I didn't experience that, but... I wasn't really listening to others, anyways.if you happen to visit in August you’ll hear more English than French being spoken.
Beautiful.
only the Eiffel tower, I'm afraid.[Do you see them??]
Impressive! Good for you!Back story: I knew more than a year in advance that we were going to France so I started learning French by using Duolingo and listening to some podcasts. I spent almost exactly a year trying to learn enough of the language and I was really excited to not have to rely completely on people knowing English. And there were several cases where we encountered people who did not know English and my French was enough to get us through.
With balconies, too. Just like the name says.[Our cute hotel]
Oh my. I did the same thing in Venice. I practiced all the way there "I would like four vaporetto tickets, please."We walked into the lobby and approached the front desk and it all left my brain in one sudden whoosh. I swear you could actually hear it go.
Yup. Whoosh.
I opened my mouth with every intention of saying, “Bonjour madame, nous avons une reservation.” But what came out was…
“ENGLISH??”
Nice view![Right outside the hotel]
Did much the same.So what did we do on our first day in Paris? A heck of a lot of walking, that’s what.
I think you mean... the pillar in Epcot looks just like this one.[The ad pillar looks just like the one in Epcot!]
I didn't go in, but knew who was interred there.The Pantheon
So sad... I'm glad I got to see it before the fire.Notre Dame
Great shot of you!
If you read my TR then you know that I cried watching it burn back in April
I didn't... but I do remember exclaiming (about the bell tower), "Oh no. It's burning... it's going to fall..." and then it did.
I had a hunch you would.We had to decide whether to eat at Esmeralda or Quasimodo and eventually went with Quasimodo.
That's what we did! Well... croque monsieurs but on a baguette.What better first meal in Paris than a baguette next to Notre Dame??
Gorgeous church. I liked the interior of it more than Notre Damme.Sainte-Chapelle
No. And not your fault. It's... stunning in person.Pictures don’t do this justice, guys.
We used the same company (except we did segways.)Fat Bike Tour of Paris
The segways were named as well.[Could this bike's name BE any cooler?]
La Louvre (hmm we came back here, too…I’m sensing a trend)
How did you react when she was finally found?I love Anastasia and even wrote a research paper on the real Anastasia Romanov in junior high for a history competition
Whoa!She said she was born in South Africa, but moved to France as a young child and attended the international school which had a lot of Americans, Canadians, and Brits. So yeah, quite the cocktail.
I'm surprised they weren't destroyed in the revolution.The gardens are filled with statues of all of the queens of France.
How did you do?By this point I had recovered my knowledge of the French language and put it to the real test, since our server did not know (or refused to speak) English.