The Last Two Weeks - Part 3 (Paris, and Geneva)

If you'll all remember, we last left off as we were heading in the car to Paris...

Now, the drive to Paris from Saarbruecken is about 5 hours or so. I spent most of the time trying to work on that History stuff, which was difficult, since the country side was very pretty..

So, about noon we found ourselves coming into Paris. I was supposed to be navigating by this time, except that the exit we needed came before we I had a chance to double check to make sure it was the right exit.. so, we drove on - hoping it was correct.

About 15 minutes later we decided to turn around and go back, since the way we were going didn't seem quite right. We ended up in this very run down, unsafe looking neighborhood. We grabbed some gas at a gas station, and attempted to ask a woman who spoke no English where we were. We did get out of her that this was "No Paris" with some wild hand gestures... hmmmm...

So back to the right freeway we went, this time sure to take the right exit. A little while later we got to the street where our hotel was - The Best Western Monte Bregnasse or something similar to that. Only t ofind that the street our hotel was on was in the middle of road construction. So, we drove around looking for impossible to find parking... only to end up having to park a very long ways away.

After some time we made it to the hotel, got our rooms, and checked out how small they were. Ours was super cute, but had a broken toilet lid. After spending all the money we spent for a room, we wanted a perfect room (and were hoping for an upgrade) so we switched rooms, to a room on the first floor which had a tub (ours only had a shower at first). We grabbed some lunch at a Pizza Parlor nearby, where we figured out the menu enough to order. I had a calzone (pizza folded in half) which was delicious.


Then it was off to some sightseeing....