Tuesday, April 24, 2001

Monday,April 24, 2001

Ok, quite a day today. Got up about 8:00, Ryan and I went to the post office to mail stuff (postcards, etc.)

Then headed the Eurostar station to catch our 11:53 train (through the Chunnel) to Paris. The other guys ate at Burger King (I ate at the hostel in the morning)...more fine British cuisine!!! So far so good for Ryan, he's had no beef yet!

Security is tight at the Eurostar when you go to board. You go through a metal detector, and if you beep, you get pulled aside and frisked, quite conscientiously (I beeped, so I had to go through with the frisking part). The examine everything closely.

Arrived in Paris about 4:00PM, and headed to the D'Artagnan hostel. Very nice, they have a restaurant, a bar, free movies every night, video games and the whole gamut. It's $25.00 a night, and that includes a breakfast.

French countryside is very prairie like. The only thing seperating it is the archtiecture of the buildings, other than that, it's pretty flat, lots of open land, farms.

A note about customs. There is none. We got off the train,and expected to go through customs,and get our passport stamped, but there was nothing. Nada. We got off the train, and walked into Paris, no questions asked about foot-and-mouth, nothing. I wonder if this means we're illegal aliens?????

Went the the Eiffel Tower and the Arc De Triumph, then ate at a fine French establishment, McDonalds!! When we got out of McDonalds,it was night, so we took a boat ride on the Siene (?) River...you should see some of the buildings lit up at night in Paris. Very impressive.

Paris is dirty, though. I liked London, I don't care for Paris.

We got took my a scam artist too. He bought some subway tickets for us, claiming they were 1 day tickets, unlimited use, then we gave him money for them, ended up they were 1-way tickets.

Dave was watching some prostitutes, and ran into a pole! HAHAHAHA! We had a good laugh about that one.

We got kicked off the Subway, because it was 12:30 and shutting down, and we wondered around Paris for an hour,trying to find our hostel. Ryan is paranoid! He's convinced we're gonna get mugged and stabbed, he doesn't want to be wandering around Paris at night. His paranoia is gonna get him into trouble!

Times almost up, I'm sure there's more, but gotta go. Plus it's 1:45 in the morning, and I'm tired. Later

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