Paris
August 2004

Actually I should I write: "Simply read travelling-reports about Paris from the two previous years." - But I don't write this... Again, I had a marvellous time in Paris. Like each year I did a short trip to the Seine-metropole. This time Easyjet had offered a flight for 0.00 € and I didn't waited a long time before I booked.
The vacation to the French capital started  on a Sunday afternoon. Like always, Kerstin and Hervé picked me up at the Opéra and we hurried home. The new appartment at the the "Avenue de Throne" offers now a guestroom and is located better than the old appartment. Then we took the metro to Bercy with our inliner. We met Hervé's sister and run Inliner at the banks of the river Seine. Many people with inliner were there and I trued some new "figures". Mariange asked me at one tine, how long I already have this inliner. It looked obviously not like three years - Anyway, I feel good. We crisscrossed the city and went reached the appartment again in the evening. Followed by a nice meal (Kerstin, I absolutely need the prescription for the bread with thus cheese!) and a few digestifs for a well and deep sleep.
On Monday I started my trip through Paris on my own. I hiked from Kerstin's home to the Opéra, through the Marais quarter in three hours. Nice lanes and cafés, which invited for a short stop. I had fun, simply sitting down for a coffee and watch people or even better watch people in-parking their cars. Especially in Paris "big fun". At noon I met Kerstin and we had a good meal at the sushi-bar. Afterwards I took the metro to Saint-Germains-de-Prés, which I hadn't visit so far. It is like a trip to old Paris, many small lanes and nice bookshops. Surely I also went to the tourist-attractions like Notre Dame. We spent the evening in a small restaurant, around the corner. Being back again, we catched the old times with pictures. The good old times with many memories. The last Paris traip could not be missing thereby...
Tuesday was already the last day. And I took the metro to the Opéra. I started with the Hard Rock Cafe and then stopped at Starbuck's for a coffee (Caramel Macchiato). The Americans would laugh about the size of teh coffee. They named it "petit", and it is really small. But believe me, when you see the prices, you wouldn't laugh anymore. Then I went to the Place Vendome. I thought about doing some shopping at the noble fashion shops - No idea, why I didn't ;-) At lunch time I met Kerstin and iwe had this tasty bread with cheese (see above) and salad. Further I walked up the Champs Elysée. This street changes every year, new shops but everytime overcrowded. Of my extensive museum program only the Catacomby remained - nothing else. Anyway, those are impressiv. Beneath the Metro tunnels the Catacombs was built between 1780-1820, around to relieve the cemetories. Lots of skeletons and skulls lie there... At the end of my trip I visited the Eifel tower - that may not be missing. Then I had a last beer with Kerstin, before I took the bus to the airport.
Paris was once again a wonderful destination. An incredible city, which I love to visit. And by the years, I know where to go...

Inliner-Tour	Place de la Bastille	Hervé with a digestif
Paris oldest chrurch - Saint-germains-de-Prés	Notre Dame	Sushi-Meal
Centre Pompidou	Place Vendome	Place des Vosges
The Catacombs	Eifeltower	"Good Bye"-Beer

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