Bonjour!

We've made it into Paris safe and sound.

Let me pick up where we left off last time...

The rest of Abu Dhabi airport was fascinating. They were really into large candy. There were chuppa chups the size of my head, massive mentos - and giant tubs of Tang lining the walls of the Duty Free shops!

Our plane was delayed by 2 hours by intense and creepy fog, so we showed up in Paris around 9 am. Then we took an hour-long bus ride from the airport into Paris-Opera where we are staying. Obviously our room wasn't ready, so we stashed our bags and headed out for a wander.

We had our first awkard language moment upon trying to order our meal, but our communication skills have since improved (somewhat) allowing me to shop successfully! But, I'm still deperately trying to produce those glottal sounds from my 'r's.

Our long wander ended up taking us by foot to Notre Dame and for a peek at the outside of the Louvre. We'll probably head back that way tomorrow with our cameras (we didn't have them at first because it was almost impossible to get our luggage sorted!)

The hotel room is pretty tiny, but it has everything we need (incuding a bath - woo hoo!)... and... wait for it... French doors!

The only annyoying thing about the hotel is that they seem to be destroying the place inside out, chiselling away at the roof noisily.

Thanks for listening - I'm going to go back to being jet lagged. I might try to get some uni work done without any of the daytime distractions... like the awesomeness of Paris.