Wednesday, July 18, 2012

I took a flight from Casablanca to Paris with Easyjet on April 4th. It costed only 80 Eur and the flight took around 3 hours. I arrived at the Charles de Gaulle airport in the evening and I had to take RER to the city center. I met my host at Porte d'OrlĂ©ans. He had a nice flat furnished in a colorful African style. I spent 6 days in Paris and the weather wasn't good, most of the time it was cold and rainy. The day after my arrival we visited the Victor Hugo's house at Place des Vosges and on Friday we travelled to Etretat in Haute Normandie (Upper Normandy in English) where we took many photos of the wonderful white cliffs. 
The weather was better than in Paris, the sun was shining. Then we went to a restaurant where we ordered mussels, each of us got a full pot. I couldn't finish eating it although I put a lot of effort. 
On Saturday we went to Haute Normandie again, this time we visited Claude Monet's house and the Japanese garden in Giverny. I met my old IRC friends on Sunday near Bastille and we went to a bar and a restaurant. It was raining a lot during my last day in Paris I went to a tea room with my host and we were walking around Notre Dame and the Eiffel tower. 
I left Paris on Tuesday April 10th when I took a train to Luxembourg. When my host was taking me to a train station we got stuck in a traffic jam so I had to take the metro and I almost missed my train.The journey took 2 hours. I arrived in Luxembourg in the afternoon and I walked around the city and took photos. The city center is small so I saw all the important things within a few hours. 
My host was a Chinese PhD. student but he was not available to meet me until the late evening. It was around 11pm when we met at the train station and we took a train to Esch-sur-Alzette where he lived. I was tired after my trip so I didn't do much during the following 2 days, I just went for a walk in the afternoon. I met a Senegalese guy on Wednesday and we had a drink and shared my experiences about my African trip. On Thursday evening I watched an old Italian horror movie with my host and on Friday I left Esch in the afternoon and I took a train to Luxembourg. I left my luggage at the train station and I went to the Chocolate house where I bought a chocolate on a stick and hot milk. The chocolate melted in the milk and I drank it, it costed 4 Eur 10 cents. Luxembourg is a very expensive country. In the evening I took a Student Agency bus to Prague, the bus didn't arrive on time but it was quite empty so I had two seats for myself and I could sleep a bit during the night. I returned to Prague on April 14th around 6am after having spent 10 weeks on the road. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi! I was also in Etretat at the same time. There really is very cool.

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