-2010 29-dicbre
Night in the "Grand" Hotel Du Havre (rue d'Amsterdam), near the Magdalena and Opera Garnier and Boulevard Haussmann (opposite the St. Lazare station ). Allegedly the hotel is three stars but leaves much to be desired with regard to the establishments of this kind in Spain (for example, has no curtain or screen in the tub-shower). But we must recognize that it is packaging and is well placed.
We reached it about 14 hours after the high stress of the almost past 24 hours: Yesterday we left home at 17:30 and arrived at the apartment of Torremolinos two hours later. Later we looked for a place to eat (it was a pizzeria run by kind-and latecomers-Argentines) and returned to the facility, which should live their glory in the early 70's and that, apparently, has become an enviable center Inserso tourists.
There we got up at 6 am and it has been almost non-stop: parking-airport-flight-transfer to Paris-food-(short break of 30 minutes) and opera-Magdalena-Concordia-Sena ( to see the Eiffel Tower Elena desire)-Place Vendôme-hotel-shower-dinner at a pizzeria. Excessive traffic in Paris and people celebrating their daily lives the holidays (I have never felt so close to Paris).
Thursday 30 and Friday December 31
On Thursday we went to Notre Dame and visited inside. Desist from climbing to the towers (maybe next time: I promised) to the long line of them found the delay involved and the prevailing cold. We walked to the Louvre but the tail, low temperatures and appetite we can, so just walk away, and along the banks of the Seine, we headed to the Musee d'Orsay . Back to the hotel exhausted from the walk and the intense day and had dinner at a restaurant that is in the same sidewalk called L'Atlantique. Although previously we also visited the nearby FNAC.
Last day of the year (Friday). Touch the Eiffel Tower, but you can not get on the top floor because it is still shrouded in fog. Coming down we stopped at the first floor, where we find an ice rink and take something warm in the bar (also on ice!) Attached kiosk. From there, the Louvre and Trocadéro through their stalls, the museum accessible from the underground station, meeting with a tail much smaller than the previous day as well to be protected from the cold. We eat sandwiches at one of its cafes and go into crowded rooms and rude.
1-Jan-2011
swift the days have passed away. And happy. Maybe we should have hired one more night.
Yesterday we drove to the Louvre to 5 pm; were many things to see, like the Venus de Milo, which was interested in our daughter. In the evening we had dinner at a restaurant called Hippopotamus (or something), belonging to a chain. I was in the Place de Clichy where we were looking Bistro Romano in which we ate while Elena came when I was little. Then we went back to the hotel where we spent the New Year.
Today we missed perhaps the day more pleasant, but also the saddest, for the dismissal. In the morning we went to Montmartre, to Le Moulin Rouge and cemetery in this neighborhood. We came on foot, for not far from the hotel. We also experienced the home of Theo Van Gogh and Le Moulin de la Galette .
Coeur we heard a man playing a harp that has touched us. I was on the steps down, as those other players I remember from my first trip to this city. Then I had a coffee at the foot of the stairs and continued down a street full of trileros, looking for the subway station of Auvers. We got off at the Place de la Bastille and, after crossing the Place des Vosges, we have come Le Marais (the Jewish Quarter), where we ate at a restaurant divinely daily menu appealed to us not disappoint, and that has been called "Le Gai Moulin" .
Then we passed through the center George Pompidou and Les Halles and we continued walking to the Latin Quarter, as dusk fell and a soft sirimiri. We have only come to the Pantheon, as Elena was tired. By underground we come briefly to L'Arc de Triomphe at Etoile and we returned to hotel after 6 pm. I've been happy walking.
i do not have the old book of travel and the year is over. Hopefully that is now beginning to be better than we left behind. Would be as happy as the day that we started.
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