Diariespart10

Christmas 2001 - Paris.

I was wondering when I would be able to write down my most wonderfull christmas experience ever. Love is like a rainbow as it always returns to the sky and it always returns unexpectacly.

We arrived in Paris only a few days before the holy evening. As we were both no Christmas fans we decided to share our time to explore the city of Paris and its beauty. Time was no importance to us as well as family dinners and gathering like most Christmas affairs in many peoples life. So Nathalie and myself decided that Paris would be ideal. I have been in Paris many times before but in the last year I found it to a more satisfaction feeling if I could share my moments of peace and relaxing in the presents of an another friend. When I asked Nathalie to join me I knew that we would fit splendid as we have done so in the past several times.

We arrived at Sunday evening and were half expecting Thomas at the station but we were not that lucky. Wasn�t any big thing as we found our way easy to the metro as I still had metro tickets of formal journeys. Our hotel was at Porte d�Italy, not really an area which you would recommend to your friends but we could stay at a reasonable price at the Express by Holiday Inn. Lets put in a few lines, our feelings about this hotel. We have seen many hotels of this chain since I am working for the chain but I have never ever experienced a so bad quality as this proporty. The staff is below every limit and facilities reach a level of an average youth hostel in an off season. The rooms were ok if we count out our broken tv-set and broken pipe line in the bathroom which an excuse for the inconvenience is something a manager had never heard off.

We have seen the main parts of Paris in one evening as Thomas took us on a sightseeing tour by car. For Nathalie is was splendid as it was her second visit to Paris and her first visit was a one day visit by bus. We have seen Place d�taly, Notre Dame, Tour Eiffel, Champs des Elysees, Arc de Triumph and much more, all lightenth by many lamps. Our first evening ended in a cafe/bar in Le Marais at Rue de Temple in a little cellar joined by glasses of wine.
Nathalie and I took our first day to see the Eiffel Tower and walk from there over the Seine to Trocadero and over the Champs des Elysees. As Nathalie flirted with the ladies, I did with the men although neither of us was very succesfull. Did we mention the cold temperature which forced us to escape towards the city for our Italian lunch followed by a little shopping tour and the introduction of our daily afternoon drink, in a little bar in Rue du Vieu Temple, red wine off course. Exhausted of the walking and less sleep previous night we decided to return to the Hotel. No diner for us as it was Christmas evening as most bars were closed so we shared what we had in our rooms, mostly chocolate....
As Nathalie stayed back and fell a sleep, I went to back to the city where I met my Santa, only a little younger and lively then the standard version...

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