First of all... this keyboard is set up very strangely so forgive any typos I miss!!!
I think the last you all heard from me I was still in Rome... well, before we left on Friday we went to the Vatican, a fantastic experience! I think the highlight was climbing the Coupla, or the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica... What a view!
Our train ride to Paris was interesting... we'll call it a new experience :) We shared a very small and uncomfortable 2nd class couchette with 4 other grown men; an Austrailian (the only other who spoke any English), a man from Moracco, and two Indian-Italians... the trip began getting interesting as soon as one person in our car couldn't produce a passport to the conductor and then tried to pay him off... yeah, interesting... then to top it off, the train was 2 hrs late into Paris! So, we dragged our tired selves through the metro and walked to the Hostel hoping for a shower, only to find that we couldn't get to our rooms until 4!!! So to kill the next 4 hours, we dropped our bags off in storage and took advantage of the Free Admission Day at the Louvre... a great time!
Returning to the hostel around 4, we promptly took some very refreshing showers and headed back out to the Eiffle Tower to meet our guide for the Segway tour! That was a lot of fun too... neither Matt or I had ever ridden on the new Segways before, it was an absolutely georgous evening, and we met a couple of Kenyan girls who grew up in Michigan of all places! So after the tour was over, the four of us went to the Latin Quarter for some Indian food and ice cream! It was a great night...
Then we woke up this morning and caught the train to Caen, where we were hoping to find some cheaper alternatives to a guided tour to go see the Normandy beaches... at the moment it's looking pretty bleak but we'll at least see the Memorial and have another story of adventure! Can't say we didn't try!
Decided to stop here at this internet cafe because it's cheap and was suprisingly convinient... something we can't say about Paris! Our hostel wants I think a euro for 5 or 10 minutes! Oh well, this just means you probably won't hear from me again until India!
Speaking of which, we're getting really excited for it, leave tomorrow evening after some more sightseeing in Paris, arriving in Delhi Wednesday afternoon local time!
Keep us in your prayers, we're alive, safe, and having a blast!
Blessings,
John
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