Chataeu de Versailles

Adam and I visited the Palace of Versailles today. It was such a marvelous and wonderful place. It is super huge and we were there for seven hours! i call it the disneyland for adults. It truly is an amazing sight.

i'll have to update later because we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow. It is our last full day in Paris :(

Paris!

We arrive in Paris around noon today. The food is soooo amazing and everyoone has been very helpful and friendly~!


our reservation at the hotel was released because we were a day late but our hotel found us another hotel to stay in. we are staying five minutes away at the Je something Eiffel





today our activities included getting to know the metro, the catacombs, and laundry.



something was up with the metro that took us to catacombs so we walked to it.. unfortunately, it was closed by the time we arrived..




we decided to visit the cemetary across the street from the catacombs (not the jim morrison, edith piaf one but we found some famous graves...






Serge Gainsborg


Adam enjoying his sidewalk nutella crepe.

journey to france

Our trip to France did not turn out as magical as I had imagined.



We started our day with a full english breakfast at our hotel in nottingham



We took many trains to get to Dover. Let me list them:


Train 1 To Nottingham to St Pancras Intl Railway
Train 2 to Brighton
Train 2 Transfer from London Bridge to Ashford

Train 4 Ashford to Deal Sandwich

Train 5 Dover Priory Shuttle to the P&O Ferry



It was an hour and a half ferry ride from Dover, England to Calais France.


One we arrive in Calais we are told that the last train left at 7:40p (it is 9:30now). Our only option is to stay overnight in Calais. We have a check in today in Paris.



We walk a few miles and decide to stay at the Victoria Hotel. We climb three flights of stairs(with luggage) to get to our room. The room is so old school, I too frightened to go to sleep.We arrived at the hotel at a little past 11pm.. making our journey to France 12 hours long!!



we decided to have breakfast at our hotel (baquette, cheese, jam, coffee). how french!


what is this for?

Au Revoir Nottingham!

bonjour! i'm off to france!

nottingham arboretum

we had sun today!



i took a walk to the other side of town and ending up in Sherwood Forest. I also visited the arboretum across the street. It was very quiet and pretty. I wanted to take a picture of a squirrel but it started to chase me so i ran away.

Nottingham Castle

today i decided to visit near by nottingham castle.



here are the steps to get to the castle









Robin Hood. Nottingham is home of tales of Robinhood. Speaking of Robinhood, I went to a conference dinner a few days ago and the guest of honer was the sheriff of Nottingham. The dinner was quite entertaining. We sat next to the group from Japan that consisted of two Egyptians.


Ye Olde Trip to Jeruselum. Apparently it is Britian's oldest pub dating back to the 1189AD.


english cobblestone roads


a mid-day snack of hot chocolate milano and an egg and ham sandwich from cafe nero.

day three nottingham

today adam slept in (skipping morning conference)so we had lunch together at the blue bell pub in downtown nottingham. i had the fish and chips with mushy peas and adam ordered the bangers and mash.



the day's activity consisted of going to the windmill of George Green's Windmill. Green was a famous mathematician who lived in Nottingham. He was a miller who did math on the side and became very famous..

here is adam enjoying the mill

we are allowed to go into the mill to discover how he turned wheat into flour.

this is the old market square. they used to have public hangings here back in the day.