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Paris Our trip began and ended in Paris. I stepped out of the airport and for the first time in my life breathed European air. It felt good. Paris is of course world renowned for for its treasures, and to me it was no disappointment. In many ways it was my favorite city from the entire trip, I only wish they spoke Spanish instead of French. That qualm aside, the week or so I spent in Paris at the start and end of the trip was nothing short of spectacular. |
The city has a fantastic transportation system - the subway easily takes you wherever you need to go. However, we ended up walking almost everywhere because the city is in fact not very large, and fortunately the weather was beautiful. The subways were clean and efficient, but there was simply too much out there for us to see. |
 Rachel and Rebecca atop the Eiffel Tower |
 Soaring towers of the cathedral |
There are so many sights in Paris that we hardly knew where to start. There were cathedrals to see with magnificent facades and stunning stained glass. There was the Louvre and d'Orsay to browse for their great masterpieces. The infamous Parisian Sewers to explore. The Eiffel tower to climb. The Pantheon. Boat tours on the Seine. Countless more. And those were merely the major sights within the city! |
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 In the gardens of Versailles |
We left the city for a day trip to Versailles. I'd learned a fair bit about The "Sun King's" Palace, but I was completely unprepared for the massive scale of the buildings and its gardens which literaly seem to go on forever (yes, we got lost in them). |