From Paris with Snow and Ice

I have travelled through France a few times and have been on a couple of day trips to Calais, but never to the capital Paris.

After setting off at 2am and meeting our coach we travelled through the night to meet the ferry in Dover. With all the bad weather chaos I expected there to be massive queues at Dover, but our fears were unfounded. We arrived in time to catch the earlier ferry.

With the early start I slept most of the way to Argenteuil where our hotel was based. It was a basic hotel in a paris suburb. I was not very impressed, the room smelled of smoke and was not very clean.

We then went for a short wander (to find a cash point, as we were so unorganised and had no euros) and then left for our evening tour of Paris. It was beautiful, the Eiffle Tower took my breath away. It was absolutely freezing.

We opted to take the five course meal our tour guide had arranged. I thought for 70 euros it would be nice. It was not!!! I have wanted to try a parisian beef borgenuine since I watched Julia and Julia and was very disapointed with the processed crap that was dished up.

The next day we had a packed itinery of sites to see. We visted Eiffle Tower, Napoleans Tomb, Arch De Triumph and the place where Princess Diana died. Then the heaven opened with snow. Our tour guide had claimed not to have seen snow like it in 30 years.

We visted Molpanass Tower and went to the viewing platform on the 56th floor. You are supposed to see a view for miles around. Unfortunately the snow storm cut the visibility and it was like looking through frosted glass.

We told the tour guide we would not be continuing with the tour in the afternoon and would do are own thing, as we wanted to visit the Lourve. We trekked the half mile walk from the drop off point to the Lourve through the heaviest snow I have seen in years.

Part two to follow...