Travel Blog - France Trip: Paris Day 1
First published: Friday August 5th, 2022
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So... I Went to France
Welcome to this little blog series detailing my adventures in France. I will be including pictures I took, funny stories, and details from the whole trip. A lot of these blogs will follow a storytelling style. I will be starting off with my first day in Paris.
Arriving in Paris
If I am being honest, the plane ride to France was pretty miserable. I was stuck in front of 2 screaming children (around 8 and 10 years old) and one of them really enjoyed kicking my seat. The I had already been traveling for about 10 hours when I got on this 7 hour flight. I did not sleep on the plane, and arrived in Paris about 8am local time. By 10am my group had made a stop at the hotel and was ready to go see some places. Hours without sleep at this point: 21.
My group of 7 along with our guide took the Underground (train system) to our first site of the day: The Montparnasse Tower. The huge skyscraper in the middle of the city has an amazing viewing platform at the top. You can see so many landmarks from up there, the view is just amazing!
I took so many pictures and videos, and this is the point my friend and I had the idea for a ridiculous TikTok. Try to find it if you want I guess. This place was so fun and I will never forget the view! Afterwards, the group decided we needed to find a place to sit for a few minutes. We left the tower at around 2pm. Hours without sleep: 25.
We decided to sit down for a while in the beautiful Luxembourg Gardens! This place is full of statues and gorgeous trees, flowers, and fountains. We got to take in the beauty of the place while resting on at a picnic table. I was just happy to be able to sit down for a while.
At this point, all 7 of us were completely exhausted. My feet hurt from walking, my sister had a migraine, and we all really needed to get sleep. We left the gardens around 4pm. Hours without sleep: 27.
An Evening in Paris
The group then took a nice walk to the Notre Dame Cathedral. The walk was about 15 minutes but felt so much longer. I absolutely loved walking though the city, but the exhaustion and joint pain were really starting to make me miserable. The cathedral was amazing. I had obviously seen pictures and I had actually done a few school projects on it. I was really sad that repairs are still going on so we couldn't go inside, but just being there was amazing. Next, we left to meet up with another group we would be touring with, then we all went to dinner around 6:30pm. Hours without sleep: 29.5.
After an amazing dinner and dessert, the group made our way back to the hotel via the train. Using the Paris underground train system with a group of 18 was very interesting. We got checked in and I finally got to sleep around 11:30pm/12am. Total hours without sleep: 35. Below I will include more pictures that I took of the streets during my 1st day in Paris. Stay tuned for Paris day 2 and the rest of the trip!
Thank you for reading this incredibly useless blog. I hope you enjoyed it at least a little.
Rosie.
Anyway, this was a fun little travel blog. Looking forward to the next one!
Also, I found your TikTok account even though that app's banned here.. 🤔