To say that the first part of our holiday went smoothly would be a total lie. Infact what is the opposite of smooth. Hindsight is 20/20 but arriving in Paris at 8pm Saturday night, hiring a car, sorry bus, which is way bigger than we have ever driven before, with a manual, no GPS and then trying to get to your hotel. Add to that the level of patience was severely diminished by the fact that we had just travelled non-stop for around 18hrs.
Epic fail is all I can categorise our arrival as, but now it is easy to sit back and have a laugh.
To sum up the journey in:
- Made it from the Airport to Stad de France, on the outskirts of Paris itself
- Drove into Paris and got hopelessly lost
- Found a Service station, to try and get directions but instead found a cab driver
- Lisa into Cab to our Hotel, Wayne following behind.
- Number of near misses following the cab = more than there are fingers on my hand
Next problem: Parking???? Available at the hotel if you have a car the size of this, but elsewise your up that s__t creek. After a lot of laughter from our travelling partners and way to much stress we found a Parking lot where the bus will stay for the next 3 days (walking around Paris is the go)
Epic fail is all I can categorise our arrival as, but now it is easy to sit back and have a laugh.
To sum up the journey in:
- Made it from the Airport to Stad de France, on the outskirts of Paris itself
- Drove into Paris and got hopelessly lost
- Found a Service station, to try and get directions but instead found a cab driver
- Lisa into Cab to our Hotel, Wayne following behind.
- Number of near misses following the cab = more than there are fingers on my hand
Next problem: Parking???? Available at the hotel if you have a car the size of this, but elsewise your up that s__t creek. After a lot of laughter from our travelling partners and way to much stress we found a Parking lot where the bus will stay for the next 3 days (walking around Paris is the go)
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