24 Feb '05 - + 14 - 21 Returned from Paris
We got back from Paris on Tuesday night. We had a great
time. The biggest lesson from the trip is a reminder to volunteer
for getting bumped whenever possible. We got bumped twice on our
way there, and we ended up with flight vouchers worth four times what
we paid for the trip! It was definitely worth getting to Paris
four hours late and flying through Frankfurt instead of Amsterdam to
get such compensation.
While there, we stayed at the
Allegro Paris Hotel,
and it was a nice place. It's in the 12th arrondissement, so it
was a bit out of the way, but it was very cheap (€49 a night), very
clean, and very professional. We'll stay there again if we go
back to Paris.
Some of the highlights of the trip were due to spending too much time with The Da Vinci Code and
Amélie over the last few years.
We visited the Church of St. Sulpice to look at the supposed Rose Line
and had a couple drinks in the Café des Deux Moulins, where
Amelie worked.
We saw other typical tourist sights in Paris, like
ascending the Eiffel Tower and spending time in the Louvre (where the
Medieval Louvre under the Sully Wing was a surprising highpoint).
Of course, we also had wonderful food and wine every day of the trip.
One highlight not on the typical tourist route was the
Musée des arts et métiers,
which surprised us with excellent exhibits on the history of
transportation, measurement, construction, energy, materials,
mechanics, and communication across the years. We also got to see
the original
Foucault's Pendulum, which was very exciting for us engineers.
I hope to get some of the pictures up soon of our four fun days.
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