Finn Lloyd — Paris

Paris has been a thoroughly enjoyable place, it is a beautiful city and it provided great places for us to visit, we visited the main attractions of course, the Louvre which was amazing, I particularly liked the Germanic and Dutch Renaissance paintings although I enjoyed everything else immensely, the Mona Lisa didn’t live up to the hype although it was still pretty good, we also visited the Eiffel tower which gave us an amazing view of Paris. I was rather disappointed when we were unable to visit the catacombs because of a two hour wait when the closing time was in an hour, however that meant that I could enjoy a second walk up to the Arc de Triumph. The food in Paris was amazing; I really liked a dinner of snails as an entrée followed by roast duck and roast potatoes which proved to be delicious. The snails didn’t actually taste of much themselves but the garlic butter that they were covered in tasted amazing. I was disappointed not to try frog legs but fortunately they apparently tasted watery and not very nice. The crepes were also amazing my favourite would have been my Nutella, banana and cream crèpe which was amazing. I unfortunately couldn’t find any gifts for my family although I did manage to pick up an Asterix’s magic potion for a friend, which means that I have almost all of my shopping to do in London. The large amount of free time was really good it gave me time to go back to the Louvre with Jonathan to see the art that we hadn’t been able to view in our first time this included some of napoleon’s personal possessions which were rather grand and although they were incredibly cool I would get sick of living the kind of lifestyle he lived. Versailles was another amazing place, the gardens were magical and huge I enjoyed a bike round the bottom of the garden and although we were told not to hire bikes it was possibly my best purchase of the trip so far. The dancing fountains were also pretty cool. The palace looked amazing inside and outside however I thought that there was too much gold, anywhere they could put gold they did and in my opinion they put up too much. I am currently under the sea on a train to London where I am looking forward to seeing the Lion King which my brother recommended and I am also looking forward to Hamley’s the 5 level toy store, although London will have to be pretty good to beat the rest of the trip so far.