An American in Paris

0Josh • 21st Oct 2006 • blog entries, travel

Its been a long two days, but very fun. From Seattle, to New York
where we had the opportunity to spend four hours at the airport, to a
flight to Paris that robbed us of 10 hours.  We got into our hotel in
Paris around 1:45pm local time, and after *briefly* getting settled,
we set out to see as much of this world class city in a day as
possible.  From a podcast tour of the Orsay Museum, to walking the
street markets of the Rue Clair district we’ve been able to get a lot
done in just a few hours.  We almost made it the full two days without
sleep, but after a museum tour a quick hour nap was in order.  We had a
great dinner out tonight at a wonderful cafe/retaunt near the Paris
Opera house where we encountered our first Parisean who didn’t speak
very good english.  We got through the meal well without accidently
ordering the snails or frog legs (although we DID see both of them on
the menu at multiple locatins).

Its been a great day, and tomorrow will be full of more travel as we
leave here in the afternoon and fly to Athens, and then onto Crete. We
should arrive at our condo around this time tomorrow (11pm local time,
around 2pm PST).  We’ll checkin with the blog after we get settled.