Our first day in London was amazing - amazing, amazing, AMAZING! Absolutely fabulous... Sue, Mom's friend, had planned and arranged practically
everything! First thing we did after leaving the house (or rather a mansion of five stories) much later than when we planned was go to the tube station, where we hopped on the tube and then onto a tour boat, which told us . . .
So, we arrived in a little village called Bayeux, near a beach called Juno Beach where the Canadians first landed in World War II. There was a museum there, and we slipped into the daily guided tour just in time- only two minutes to spare. Our guide was nice, and he had to keep switching from english to french because there were other people in the group from other places in France. I could partly understand the French, but I'm missing all the key words... Like tanks or soldiers or grenades or guns.
The tiny building is right on the shore of . . .
Giverny, home to the ever-famous painter, Claude Monet. We waited in line a little, and then when in opened everyone piled in. I was shocked by the gardens - an amazing assortment of every flower (almost)! Paths weaved in an out of the wet, fresh plants and people milled all around. There was a sligth drizzle, but no matter; we headed straight to his pond and bridge, which was located across the road, accessed by a tunnel.
Everything in Giverny was beautiful -- the brick wall, the pond, the bamboo islands, the water lillies, the tiny streams, the bridges, the . . .
I wasn't too keen on going out that day, feeling rather sick, but Mont Saint Michel was beautiful -- of course I had to go! Immediatly Birch wanted to go walking on the wide, open beach! Dad persuaded me to come, so we decided to walk to the very end for at least an hour. The other day Mom had . . .
We went to pretty much every sight in Paris; the Eiffel Tour, Notre Dame, and the Arch of Triumph. They were all really amazing, and lived up to my grand expectations to the absolute and beyond...
Eiffel Tower:
The Eiffel Tower was originally built by Mr. Eiffel, as an art exhibition to compete for the world's tallest building - I guess it was, but the silly competition is for some reason quite important to some powerful people in the world. I mean, really, there are more important things than winning (such as the pollution caused by all that construction and related topics). Anyways, the original plan was to . . .
_ Here some of the amazing art galleries we went to... After all, that's one of the things Paris is most famous for!
Musee Rodin:
I loved it! The gardens were massive, and statues were sprinkled everywhere. Unfortuantely, I couldn't find anything to sketch - all the scultures were either naked or missing heads or some other limb... And the only one which was suitable to draw was standing alone with no bench in sight. It was a pleasure walking around, and right before it closed we had peak inside the . . .
We arrived in Paris!!! The first night we got there, we moved into our little apartment and while Dad and Birch put the car in a legal pay parking, a half hour walk and hour drive away, Mom and I cleaned and put into order the apartment. The cielings were low in some parts (especially the door) and Mom, Dad and Birch kept hitting their head... Thankfully I'm still too shortin the main room!
On our first day we tried to wake up early, but only managed eight o'clock. Ugh! I was really frustrated, and even more when Mom and Dad stopped at . . .
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