Margot says:
Whilst I am enjoying the thought of being in Paris at last, my travelling companion is finding it somewhat difficult to cope with city life. Despite this I have every intention of enjoying myself!
We arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport this morning, dropped off our hire car and picked up a taxi. Similarly to my last visit to Paris when everything was being cleaned, upgraded and scaffolded, the taxi driver had great difficulty in getting us to the hotel as the surrounding roads were in lock down due to some new development (roadworks!). We went around in circles and the poor chap had to park about a block away and help us drag our luggage to the hotel.
Our taxi driver was a very pleasant multi-lingual Iranian man (this impressed Catherine!) who gave us a guided tour when we got to the city centre, pointing out all the sights of interest. However, the pièce de résistance came when he advised us that he had a friend from Melbourne called Margot. He was so excited! What a coincidence!
We lunched at a nearby restaurant and watched the world go by. We are now back in our hotel room planning the next three days. Catherine will follow wherever I lead, so she says. Our first thing will be to organise a hop-on-hop-off bus tour to get our bearings.
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