Dec 23 - 2006
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!!
I want to start off by wishing everyone out there reading this a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!! As you all may know, Lynsey and I choose to spend this holidays away from home to allow ourselves a longer travel period and the chance to experience Christmas in PARIS!!!! So here we are, spending Christmas in a very beautiful city, full of incredibly way to many people and way to expensive everything. Yes, we are very sad that our families are at home celebrating Christmas without us, but hopefully they all know how much we miss them and how much we love them and that we will be right there beside them all in spirit! Being away from your family during both Thanksgiving and Christmas really makes you appreciate how much you truly do love and care for them. I know both of us have and I can safely say that for anyone else who has spent the holidays away from there loved ones. Alright, enough of the sappy stuff, I'll give you a little update on our past few days of traveling!
Alright, so after getting back in to the Czech on Saturday the 16th from Croatia, we spent the next 2.5 days packing, cleaning, cooking and saying goodbye to all of our new found friends. It was tough saying goodbye because we never know when our paths will cross again. I hope I can say they will cross again soon but who knows what will happen between now and then! So, Tuesday morning I checked out of the room
and we grabbed our couple bags and set out with the Belgiums (Filip, Caroline and Kristof) for the start of our journey to Belgium!! After roughly 16 hours of traveling across the continent of Europe we arrived in Brussels, Belgium. We said goodbye to the three of them, only temporary (we will be spending 3 days or so with them over New Years), jumped on a train and head to the Belgium town of Gent. We found our hotel, checked in and immediately took a nice morning nap to refuel our bodies. We walked around the beautiful city for awhile before trying to figure out our next leg of the journey...getting to Caen, France and the beaches of Normandy. We were soon notified by the train ticket lady that all trains between Belgium, Caen and Paris were completely FULL for the next week or so. So this put us in a tough spot. We quickly adapted, found the LAST 2 bus tickets for the week to Paris leaving the following morning at 0800 and quickly snatched them up.
So this is where you find us now...in Paris. We arrived in to Paris on Thursday with no idea what we were going to do for the next 2 days before our reservation at our hotel was ready. So we checked for buses to Caen, France and none were avaiable so we found a nice, little cheap hotel right next to the bus stop and a main metro line that would allow us easy access in to the city. It actually turned out to be a nice litlte place and it was painless getting to and from the city. So we are very glad we came to Paris 2 days early because we got a lot of sight seeing in that I'm not sure we would have been able to do in just 4 days. A few of the sights visited so far: Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Notre Dame, Pantheon, Arc De Triomphe, National Military Museum (Napoleon's Tomb), Mini Statue of Liberty and a bunch more! We have done a lot of walking, dodge a lot of non-stopping cars, scooters, bikes and motorcyles and pushed our way through countless herds of cigeratte smoking, wee wee speaking, crepe eating, American hating French people! But it has been an awesome time so far and we can only imagine what else we are going to see in the next 3 days! Oh and for all of you who are wondering what we will be doing tomorrow night on Christmas Eve, we are going to the Cathedral of Notre Dame for the "Lighting of Lights" and Christmas Mass! We looked at a few places to eat Christmas dinner but the prices were ungodly expensive! 45-60 Euros (60-80 US Dollars) for one person to eat an appetizer, main course and dessert but no drinks!!! So, we are still looking. It truly will be a Christmas to remember for the two of us and we are very excited to be here in Paris to celebrate it together.
Again, we want to wish everyone back home a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. We are SOOOOO thankful for all the wonderful family and friends we both have for we would not be the people we are today if it wasn't for all of you. You all mean the world to us and we do not know what we would do without you all. Enjoy the Holidays and the time you will be spending with your family and loved ones because those are the people who truly care about you!!
We miss you all and you will all be in our hearts and minds during the upcoming days. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!
Love Jon and Lynsey
Alright, so after getting back in to the Czech on Saturday the 16th from Croatia, we spent the next 2.5 days packing, cleaning, cooking and saying goodbye to all of our new found friends. It was tough saying goodbye because we never know when our paths will cross again. I hope I can say they will cross again soon but who knows what will happen between now and then! So, Tuesday morning I checked out of the room
and we grabbed our couple bags and set out with the Belgiums (Filip, Caroline and Kristof) for the start of our journey to Belgium!! After roughly 16 hours of traveling across the continent of Europe we arrived in Brussels, Belgium. We said goodbye to the three of them, only temporary (we will be spending 3 days or so with them over New Years), jumped on a train and head to the Belgium town of Gent. We found our hotel, checked in and immediately took a nice morning nap to refuel our bodies. We walked around the beautiful city for awhile before trying to figure out our next leg of the journey...getting to Caen, France and the beaches of Normandy. We were soon notified by the train ticket lady that all trains between Belgium, Caen and Paris were completely FULL for the next week or so. So this put us in a tough spot. We quickly adapted, found the LAST 2 bus tickets for the week to Paris leaving the following morning at 0800 and quickly snatched them up.So this is where you find us now...in Paris. We arrived in to Paris on Thursday with no idea what we were going to do for the next 2 days before our reservation at our hotel was ready. So we checked for buses to Caen, France and none were avaiable so we found a nice, little cheap hotel right next to the bus stop and a main metro line that would allow us easy access in to the city. It actually turned out to be a nice litlte place and it was painless getting to and from the city. So we are very glad we came to Paris 2 days early because we got a lot of sight seeing in that I'm not sure we would have been able to do in just 4 days. A few of the sights visited so far: Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Notre Dame, Pantheon, Arc De Triomphe, National Military Museum (Napoleon's Tomb), Mini Statue of Liberty and a bunch more! We have done a lot of walking, dodge a lot of non-stopping cars, scooters, bikes and motorcyles and pushed our way through countless herds of cigeratte smoking, wee wee speaking, crepe eating, American hating French people! But it has been an awesome time so far and we can only imagine what else we are going to see in the next 3 days! Oh and for all of you who are wondering what we will be doing tomorrow night on Christmas Eve, we are going to the Cathedral of Notre Dame for the "Lighting of Lights" and Christmas Mass! We looked at a few places to eat Christmas dinner but the prices were ungodly expensive! 45-60 Euros (60-80 US Dollars) for one person to eat an appetizer, main course and dessert but no drinks!!! So, we are still looking. It truly will be a Christmas to remember for the two of us and we are very excited to be here in Paris to celebrate it together.
Again, we want to wish everyone back home a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. We are SOOOOO thankful for all the wonderful family and friends we both have for we would not be the people we are today if it wasn't for all of you. You all mean the world to us and we do not know what we would do without you all. Enjoy the Holidays and the time you will be spending with your family and loved ones because those are the people who truly care about you!!
We miss you all and you will all be in our hearts and minds during the upcoming days. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!
Love Jon and Lynsey
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