12.6. It's raining in Paris

Tekijä: Eeva Sankari
On Sunday we left La Pommeraye. Our nice hostfamily took us to railway station and this time the train was in schedule. So little before two o'clock we were at the Montparnasse railwaystation and after searching a while I finally find a machine who sold me two tickets for travelling by metro, busses and RER-trains in Paris. I was so happy that I had done this trip from railwaystation to hostel last October, so this was easy part.



Easily we were in our hostel Mije. We checked-in and after a brief moment of planning we were on the road. First we chose one of small restaurants on Rue Rivoli and had very good salad for lunch. Because it was Sunday quite many shops were closed and we decided to walk to Notre Dame cathedral. At home we planned to go by hopon-hopoff boats to see all the important sights, but unfortunately those boats were not in use because of flooding Seine.



After terrorist attacks in Paris many things have changed. Anne told me that you can see more Tricolore flags both small villages and Paris, there are soldiers and policemen on the streets, at the airport and railway stations, even in Notre Dame my bag was checked and guards has metal detectors. In October there weren't any guards before entrance.

We had a nice tour in the cathedral and we decided to walk by the Seine back to our hostel. Beside street there were many souvenir shops and while we stopped to one of them, it started to rain. It was easy to understand that Seine is flooding. We had only a five-ten minutes walk to hostel, but we got totally wet; clothes, shoes, bags, everything. Soaking we made an excursion to buy some snack and then to warm shower and to bed.

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