Sean Lennon Day 1, YOW-CDG
I had to get up early today to finish all the little things - currency, supplies, packing, etc... That took a good chunk of the day and I headed to the airport for 6pm to fly to Montreal, then on to Paris. While sitting at the airport in OTtawa for what seemed like the millionth time this year, I decided to go to the bar, something I hadn't done there before. Funny thing is I ran in to two people I hadn't seen in months. Funny how that works out...
Anyways, the flight to Monty was painless, I waited a bit for the flight to Paris, everything was fine, no glitches. I even managed to get a little bit of sleep on the plane. Once I landed, I headed over to another terminal to meet everyone, and after all the flights got in, we headed to the hotel.
It was a hotel we've stayed in before, during our last trip here, and we were pretty excited about it. It was amazing last time and we're in Paris for the first 6 days, so things were looking good. But the hotel is being renovated. Not good anymore. Our rooms are but a fraction of the size they used to be, and somewhat uncomfortable. The internet isn't even working during the renovations either, so we're pooched. Oh well, at least we're in an amazing part of town, so we're only in the room to sleep anyways...
So after dropping everything off, we head out to look for food, something that's incredibly easy yet near impossible to find here. There's so many places, literally every 2 doors is a café. How do you choose? We eventually settled for one that provided a mediocre meal, but given our hunger it ended up being ok. After that, we headed back to the hotel for a bit, and later on the evening we went to another café for dinner and took a quick metro ride into the heart of the city to burn whatever energy we had left. By the time we got back, I figure we were probably awake for some 30+ hours. Amazing.
Anyways, the flight to Monty was painless, I waited a bit for the flight to Paris, everything was fine, no glitches. I even managed to get a little bit of sleep on the plane. Once I landed, I headed over to another terminal to meet everyone, and after all the flights got in, we headed to the hotel.
It was a hotel we've stayed in before, during our last trip here, and we were pretty excited about it. It was amazing last time and we're in Paris for the first 6 days, so things were looking good. But the hotel is being renovated. Not good anymore. Our rooms are but a fraction of the size they used to be, and somewhat uncomfortable. The internet isn't even working during the renovations either, so we're pooched. Oh well, at least we're in an amazing part of town, so we're only in the room to sleep anyways...
So after dropping everything off, we head out to look for food, something that's incredibly easy yet near impossible to find here. There's so many places, literally every 2 doors is a café. How do you choose? We eventually settled for one that provided a mediocre meal, but given our hunger it ended up being ok. After that, we headed back to the hotel for a bit, and later on the evening we went to another café for dinner and took a quick metro ride into the heart of the city to burn whatever energy we had left. By the time we got back, I figure we were probably awake for some 30+ hours. Amazing.
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