Posted 6:17 AM by MelanieandSteve
Day 9 of travel
Leaving tonight for Madrid
First two cities, London and Paris, are expensive. Such as small bottle of Avion water was 5 dollars.
Loving walking around, meeting people, seeing the cities and life in them. We are visiting touristy attractions, and they are great for history and learning, but they take a second to seeing the real life.
We extended our stay in Paris because we couldn't get enough of it.

Attractions in London:
=Westminister Abby: Place of many a coronation, and many a famous crypt.
=Parliament: incredible architecture and the famed Big Ben.
=Double Decker Busses
=Thames River Tour
="Even Song" service at St. Paul's Cathedral, hauntingly beautiful sound
=Night life at English Pubs, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus, and a walk through Soho.l
= Stayed at "City of London Youth Hostel". Expensive, but nice enough.
=London Dungeons

Took the New Train: Chunnel / Eurostar under the English Channel

Attractions in Paris:
=Notre Dame: traced Quasaimoto's footsteps up up up the spiral staircases to the bell tower.
=Louvre
=Arch d. Triumphe
=Eiffel Tower to the top, of course.
=Catecombs: tunnels under the city filled with neatly stacked tibias and skulls from skeletons that previously filled the cemetary of the Innocents in Paris which got over filled. Erie, interesting, and under rated. Many people who visit Paris never hear of it.
=Napoleon's tomb at Hotel d Invalides
=Moulin Rouge from the outside
=Versailles
=Sacre Coeur
=Concierge prison where 2700 people awaited the guillotine in 1793-1794
=A lot of other smaller museums and historical sights we enjoyed greatly. It seems there's a land mark every couple of blocks, just start walking around and you come across another.