We decide to skip Luxembourg because Chin starts her
residency the day after and I didn’t want to get into Paris too late,
especially with the train issues we encountered. We caught a Thayls Bullet train to Paris
where speeds topped out at 186 miles per hour.
The countryside went woosh in just 90 minutes!
Unlike the Belgians the French know how to post maps and
instructions everywhere. We traveled
from Brussels to Paris Nord. The large
train station in Paris. When we got to
the station we had no troubles finding the ticketing center to purchase subway
tickets. While trying to figure out
which line to wait in for our tickets we had an attempted pickpocket crew try
their luck on us. One showed some form to sign about being deaf and dumb or
something and the person said sign.
While she kept pointing to the sheet two others came behind us and was
waiting for us to focus on the sheet.
Chin picked up on the attempted pickpocketers while I just gave them the
“go away look I don’t want to be bugged look.”
Either way we accomplished our goal of getting them to go away. It was strange for them to target us in the
first place since there were plenty of tourists that had no idea what was going
on.
We purchased 5 day passes and then proceeded to get on the correct
subway train! Paris has tons of amazing
old buildings. I felt a little naïve
when we got out of the subway at St. Michel.
Lots of sites, sounds and smells.
Some good and some not so good.
We checked into a Holiday Inn near St Michel. It turns out to have been a great move on our
part because our internet worked quite well.
The suggested hotel for the residency was a Novatel near the Eiffel
Tower. It didn’t look nice from the
outside. The second thing we did was go
down to the post office and buy some SIM cards for our phones since we would be
separated the next few days. Yes, you
read that correctly. Their postal
service sells sim cards for phones. We
walked around for a little while when we picked a random café and enjoyed happy
hour there. However, “happy hour”
pricing is still very expensive. Paris
is not a cheap town. We then had a good
dinner near St. Michel and after some people watching we headed back to the
hotel to do some work. Our room was in
typical Euro fashion very small but they did give us a few of the Eiffel Tower
from our balcony.
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