Thursday, 14 July 2011

Bonjour Paris

We had a smooth train trip with kids and luggage (although we left some at aunty Di's).

Bonjour Paris!



Our pad is awesome - central to everything with parisian style apartment living.  We are situated in the Bastille district with great atmosphere, shopping cafes and restaurants.  We are next to Place des Vosges - Victor  Hugo square.  A 5 minute walk to the Seine through St Paul a 10-15 minute to Notre Dame and access to multiple Metro stations (view from our window below along with Place des Vosges our local park).





Bev joined us from Spain and good to have her back on board and we have been busy tourist bees.
We have managed to conquer the following:
  • Notre Dame, many times as we walk through this area regularly and have found a quiet cafe that suits us and the kids


  • Eiffel Tower, to which we caught the glass elevator to the top, although busy moving through tourists with the family the view was spectacular and though I have seen before it still amazed me.



  • Versailles - WOW what a palace and the gardens were beautiful we caught the petit train out to Marie Antoinette's petit trinon (hamlet).  The day was exhausting as we commenced with a line closed for upgrade and then the train we were on was delayed 45 mins due to an electical problem but we made it and enjoyed the ambience and extravagance Versailles offered.











  • Trav and I were lucky enough to have a night out together at Moulin Rouge which was outstanding, very colourful, vibrant and sexy.

  • Louvre and the gardens leading to Champs-Elysees and Arc-de-Triomphe.



Trav, Bev and Hudson went back to the Louvre this morning to go through the museum and see the Mona Lisa while Maddie Noah and I took it slow and meet up with them on Notre Dame island to view the Bastille Day jets fly over and caught the horse parade returning to their stables. We stayed clear of the main parade with over 1 million people lining the Champs-Elysees as a little too crazy with 3 kids under 5.






Coming Up: Disneyland (tomorrow), Seine River Cruise and Dinner looking across the bank at the Eiffel Tower, Sacre-Coeur, more shopping and maybe Monet museum before we head to Avignon - Pont du Guard.

A plus tard

The Minns Mob - Melanie, Travis, Madeleine, Hudson, Noah

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P.S  Happy July Birthday to Darren Minns (who happens to be in France also), Isobel and Indie Trainor, Lucy Calder

P.P.S A belated June Birthday to Danica Tweedie, Jo Charlesworth, Rachael Trainor, Kiralee and Guy Minns
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2 comments:

  1. Pam and Terry14 July 2011 at 21:56

    You guys certainly are keeping up a cracking pace. Paris is great isn't it. Still one of the world's most beautiful cities. Hadn't realised Versaille was on ypur agenda. What a magnificent place but makes you wonder about the poor peasants of those days while others were living in such opulence. Just had fireworks here in New York for Bastille Day. Great view from the 35th floor of our new apartment. We had a great trip to Europe and caught up with all our friends (see blog for details). Finally starting to get ourselves organised in our new home. Take care guys, Regards Terry & Pam xxx

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  2. Peter and Alysia16 July 2011 at 13:34

    Hi trav Mel and family I'm in London at the moment Peter is at the British open, loving the blog, I'll send you mine whe. I can work out how to do it, heading to paris next we'd but I know that we miss you.
    Pies on top trav, dogs still taking you on the roller coaster! Cheers alysia

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