Summer weekends in Paris = busy but beautiful! We’ve been all over the city, mostly by walking (our tired feet can attest to this), to see everything from the Eiffel Tower to Pere Lachaise Cemetery, from Montmartre and the Sacre Coeur to the Le Petit Journal jazz club on Saturday night, and an organ concert in St Sulpice church by their master organist on Sunday morning (watch a video). There was even a guy on the Parc du Champ de Mars who tried the “I found a gold ring which you can have if you buy me coffee” scam! The food is amazing, the wine unbelievably cheap (but fantastic!), and we’re a bit sad to be leaving tomorrow. But there are sights, food, and wine and beer waiting for us in England, so to majestic Paris we say: Bon soir!

We arrived in Paris this morning at 7:30a, neither of us having slept a minute on the plane. Coach class in American Airlines leaves something to be desired.
We got out of the Metro at the St Michel stop and what was the first thing we saw? The Notre-Dame! (So we took some photos).
The hotel is beautiful, tucked away in the Latin Quarter, but our room wasn’t ready, so as much as we wanted to nap, we spent the next 4 hours wandering around- back to Notre-Dame, Quai de la Tournelle, breakfast on Boulevard Saint Germain, Jardin des Plantes. We took a quick nap when we got into the room and then went exploring again- checking out the Left Bank and Jardin du Luxembourg. What a day!
It’s 9:30p, still light out, we’re both completely exhausted, but incredibly happy, and now it’s time for bed.
Au revoir!

Hi from New York!

We’re very excited about our trip and can’t wait to get going. We’ll start updating this site as soon as we’re overseas on the 16th of July. Stay tuned (and feel free to subscribe to posts so you can get notifications whenever we ‘send’ a new ‘postcard’)!

love,

Josh and Meg