Emily's Blog

   We have been in Paris for a week but tonight we are catching an overnight train to Venice. It’s pretty sad leaving Paris and our apartment, but I’m excited to be going to Venice. Our apartment was opposite Sorbonne University in the 5th arrondissement in the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank. An arrondissement [...]

The first time we saw the Eiffel Tower was when we were driving into Paris last Sunday. We have seen it every day since except on the day we went to Disneyland. I think the Eiffel Tower’s structure is really pretty and I was disappointed that we could only go to the second level. The [...]

Today we walked through the catacombs underneath Paris. They are old quarries that they used to store bones that they dug up from the cemeteries when they got full and diseases started happening. The bones were taken there at night and then later on they were put against the walls and the front layer of [...]

We went to Eurodisney yesterday. It was so much fun, we went on lots if rollercoasters and we did an Alice in Wonderland maze to get to a castle and we saw lots of Disney characters. The first ride I went on was the Indiana Jones rollercoaster. Another rollercoaster we went on was Space Mountain [...]

Yesterday we stayed at La Baule. La Baule has a sandy beach with lots of shells on it when the tide is low. It is a really long beach and when the tide is out people dig for shellfish. There were two horses that ran along the hard sand pulling jockeys. Near La Baule there [...]

We’re going to be in France for two weeks now. Yesterday we drove to Varennes-sur-Alliers and tonight we are in Poitiers. Our hotel is on the central square and we watched boys doing tricks on their bikes on the steps of the town hall. The Town Hall (they are called the Hotel de Ville in [...]

We stayed overnight in a little village called Obernai. The houses were all half-timbered and it made them look like they were out of a storybook. There were lots of Christmas decorations around the town. We visited Koenigsbourg castle in the morning, it was very, very cool because it was a real castle and we [...]