Tuesday, April 28, 2009

April 24: Driving to Paris


We said our goodbyes to Rosetta at the Casa dei Limone and it was a fond farewell. We started driving around 9am and headed North. The driving was slow and we barely avoided a near accident in one of the tunnels. We figured out that Italians put in tunnels almost anywhere they could. In the Alps, all you go through are tunnels. I know there are many roads that are not tunnels but we didn't go on any of them. We did see a little snow-rain mixed at the Ital-France border. We also think we saw the Mattterhorn and its glaciers and it was very impressive even for a guy who used to live in Alaska.

Drove drove drove and upon arrival in Paris got into a massive traffic jam. It took an extra hour to get to the airport to return the car.

Returned the car after some hassle finding the car return location and then loaded ourselves up like pack animals and to the RER train to the Chatelet-Les Halles where we took the local train to St Sulpice which was a half a block from our hotel. Lynne is really on top of the train systems here. She has earned the name GPS girl. Our hotel is called Hotel St-Germain and is at 50 Rue du Four in Paris. The room is good, a bit small but not unexpected. Freshly painted which the smell of bothered Lynne a little.

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