This castle is at the end of a subway ride on line #1 in Paris. We took a picnic as suggested by their website and got on the subway. I haven’t told you about our baguette lunches yet have I? It is wonderful and I will miss them. They take a about 10 in baguette and we get the ham… Read more →
We had another great day today! But one of the best things about it was the our French Brother and Sister in faith , Anne and Fredrick , invited us to dinner. We met them when we went to go hear Jazz the other night. We got to met Fredricks Mom and their daughter Estella also joined us, along… Read more →
Here is the Lock bridge… You can even buy locks from street vendors with sharpie’s in hand ( to write Joy +Steve and the date) … We didn’t , all the dates I saw where 2015 and ours would be 1975. And yes… That is our shadow, very artsy right? Read more →
The Louvre… Well, it’s the Louvre. It’s amazing , incredible ect…. But the D’Orsay for me is inspiring. It reminds me why I always wanted to paint! So… Here’s my run down Vincent Van Gogh, he was a nut who needed to paint. Here’s a self portrait………. Looks nice and he’s really good with contrasting colors…. Now here’s his… Read more →
Today we have taken a rest to regroup our plans. I bought our train tickets to Louviers where the French Bethel is, so that’s all planed. We went through our pictures so far and I thought I’s share this from yesterday…. The Mona Lisa…… People looking at the Mona Lisa… No way is anyone getting close to admire,… Read more →
Another day , another train/subway adventure 🚉 what can I say…. “We sure aren’t in Kansas Toto” but all in all I think we are doing pretty well it’s just seems like we are running everywhere! We did decide to forgoe the trip to London and do more in Paris while we are getting the hang of it. Arrangements to… Read more →
The bus tours where on a 2 story open air bus…. Worked out very well. We had stops we could stay at then catch the next bus. As you can see I Finally got to see AND be at the Louvre! Wednesday we will have tickets 🙂 Also we had a nice cafe dinner that this time I took pictures…… Read more →
We attended an English Congragation today….It was so nice, they even had other visitors too. We met a couple from Texas and a sister from Louisianna and another from the Cayman Islands. but otherwise it was people from all over the world that have moved to Paris but speak better English than French. It’s so amazing that as a JW… Read more →
So last night we had an incredible dinner in Paris! We where taken by my sister in laws brother Mick and his two young adult kids. We headed by train/subway after 7 so the only pic’s I got was of the train station )which was a cool place .. But when we walked out of the subway to… Read more →
Wow… That was a really long flight! I’ve never done anything like that before and it was exhausting. We had a late start from Fresno so in Dallas we needed to pretty much run over to the international flights and go. It was a huge plane and pretty nice but I still battled with that feeling of being “closed… Read more →