Viva La France

Finally !

After about 24 hours on the go we finally arrived in Paris last night at about 8pm - just to get the timing thing right, we had a 4:30am start HK time on Friday (which is 6:30am Brisbane time) for the flight to London - BJ and I sent the girls on to wait at the gate while we made a last minute stop in the exclusive smokers lounge before the 13hour flight to London. This pit-stop marked a first for us as we have never been the last ones to board a plane before but we made our way to the gate only to find they were holding the flight for us ! Ooops !!!!

Once we hit Heathrow we made our way to the British Airways transfer desk to check in for the last leg to Paris and encountered the real life equivilent of the "Computer says no" character out of Little Britain - if she had been any less enthusiastic and any slower she would have been going in reverse.

"Mmmm. 4 seats together ? Computer says nooooo"

Heathrow airport is a hell hole by the way - next time we go anywhere that requires a transfer through this airport we will be strongly recommending the agent finds an alternative.

The transfer from Charles De Gaulle airport was a great drive once we hit the city proper - not quite sure why but we seemed to drive forever through backstreets to drop off one of the other passengers before our stop - last time we were here it was for a few days over New Year so there was no real traffic to spesk of but driving through these tiny winding streets at night was wonderful. The kids had crashed out and missed it but BJ and I loved it.

By the time we got to the apartment it was about 8pm Paris time ( 5am Bris time ) so it had been a huge day. Finally crashed out about midnight (9am Bris). The apartment is just wonderful - everything we expected it to be - what I didn't take into account though is that being on the top floor of a 17th century building there is no lift which meant hauling luggage up 5 flights of spiral stairs, oh well- good with the bad :-)

We're off in a lttle while to find a supermarket and have a bit of a wander around. I will throw a few pics on a bit later today.