First day in Paris

We’ve now had almost 24 hours in Paris. I’m so glad we decided to travel here because it really is much lovelier than London. The underground Metro is newer, cleaner, faster, and easier to use than in London, although unfortunately the M14 line smells like crap. This is the main line we will generally be catching, from our closest stop ‘Madeleine’. Yesterday we walked down to le Jardin de Tuilleries and ate takeaway baguette (mozarella & tomato) on our way past the Musee du Louvre to a vegetarian restaurant that we wanted to go check out for dinner. We got breakfast supplies for our room from the supermarket, dropped them in the fridge & went back out to the vegetarian restaurant for dinner.

Morven had a lot of fun conversing with the waiter, & she did really well. Unfortunately she was better at talking about the weather than understanding how to say we weren’t ready to order, so I just pointed out some random entree & mains for myself, not knowing what it was! Both our entre’s were delicious, but the mains were very plain. We saw a nice restaurant on our walk home which has some vegetarian options, which actually look very tasty, so will probably go back there tonight.

The weather is being very kind to us, other than being cold it’s only slightly windy and not at all wet so it’s easy to stay warm. Right now we are planning to go to Eiffel Tower so better go! We’re planning on making a day of the Versailles palace tomorrow.