Paris: Day 1

Our easyJet flight, much delayed, arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport pretty late into the night. We took a train into Paris, transfered once at a station, and miraculously found the right line to our hotel.

After we got out of the metro, we had a hard time finding the street our hotel was located and was forced into the unfortunate situation of roaming the streets of an unfamiliar city at night with our luggage, looking very much like targets tourists.

The next morning we headed over to the Sainte Chapelle, which is filled with beautiful stained glass windows. Unfortunately, it wasn't very sunny -- rainy in fact, and there was no sunlight to shine through the chapel.



Afterwards, we went to the prison that Marie Antoinette was apparently held before her execution, and then grabbed some grub at a cafe. This was the first of many tasty treats we had in Paris -- egg, sunny side up, on top of melted cheese and toast with ham.



We wandered through the Latin Quarter (at least I think that's where we were) a bit, and eventually made our way to the Pantheon -- not to be confused with the Pantheon in Rome.

Inside, they had these weird white drops hanging form the ceiling - apparently it was "art", which I thought detracted away from my whole Pantheon experience. Now, instead of thinking of the Pantheon as a marvelous, grand temple of the gods, I'll instead have nightmares of white goop crushing me:


It was already dark, and we decided to take a tea and crepe break before heading out into the cold again, and eventually headed to Notre Dame, which looks awesome at night.