Last night Leigh and I were in Paris ringing in the New Year with a couple thousand other people at Champs Elysees. We had been promised fireworks and light shows. We took a bottle of cider and a bottle of champagne with us to Paris. First we went to the Marais neighborhood to get falafel from L'As du Fallafel (Lenny Kravitz says it's the best in the world), which was very yummy. Then we took the FREE metro to Concorde and drank our cider. We walked up and down the Champs Elysees for a couple of hours to stay warm and then drank our bottle of champagne around midnight. By 15 minutes after midnight we were headed back to the apartment with about 1/4 of Paris to catch the last trains to the Ile de France area. In the end the fireworks were very underwhelming, as were the light shows, but the mood was festive and it was better than sitting at the apartment in the suburbs waiting for our early morning flight.
Last night and this morning were like the never ending day. At 2am Leigh and I were hauling our luggage from the apartment to the train station to catch the night bus toward Charles de Gaulle Airport. We took a night bus to Gare de Lyon (sketchy), then the RER D train to Gare du Nord (extra sketchy including drunks and a guy peeing on a staircase as we walked up it) then RER B to CDG (super, duper sketchy complete with a girl screaming bloody murder at one stop and the train having technical problems and sitting in the middle of nowhere at another stop). We FINALLY made it to CDG and onto our plane, which landed in Nice 20 minutes early, then took the bus to Antibes, which also went very quickly. Then we walked up the hill to the apartment with our luggage and collapsed into bed. Neither of us budged for about 7 hours! In all it was a great trip and I plan to write more on my website in the coming days.
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