Tag: Paris
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Paris with Friends!
Read more: Paris with Friends!Paris is an amazing city and we have really enjoyed our time there…in fact, one week was too short to see so many sights and try so many new things. It’s even better when you have friends to show you the way and introduce you to how Parisians really live. Lucky for us, Louise and…
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The Ultimate Treasure Hunt
Read more: The Ultimate Treasure HuntThe Louvre is an amazing museum full of almost 35 000 artifacts. Needless to say, the 13km former palace is not something that can be visited in an afternoon! We wanted to use some type of technology to help us navigate the museum, so we decided to try out an app called Huntz (both iOS and…
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How do you say “wow” in French? Musee d’Orsay
Read more: How do you say “wow” in French? Musee d’OrsayOur 3-hour walking tour when we first arrived really set us up well to plan our remaining time in Paris. One of the things we decided we absolutely had to see was the Musee d’Orsay, located “just down the road from” the Louvre. The museum was originally designed as a railway station, however as trains…
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Paris in a day!
Read more: Paris in a day!Having settled in to our flat, we were keen to get started…to soak in all that Paris has to offer. But where to start? On the internet, of course. After some research, Katina found what sounded like a fantastic 3 hour walking tour of Paris, through a new company called Wego Walking Tours. Our Tour…
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Paris – The City of Lights!
Read more: Paris – The City of Lights!We arrived in Paris, the city of Lights, late at night at the Gare Du Nord. We rented a 2 bedroom flat in the 11th arrondissement – the Bastille District through VRBO. It was in a residential neighbourhood, so we quickly felt less touristy and part of the community. We had a number of markets and shops…