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Monday, Jan 10, 2005

Ice skating with Da Vinci

David Murray
2007-02-21 18:57:06

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Having only just been in Paris a couple of months ago, Lucy's mum had left behind a book called the Da Vinci Code, which by chance was set in Paris, home of touch parking and dog shit, and as all of the places are real, we had to go, so another set of cheap tickets were found, this time, on the Eurostar. We were also here to go ice skating on the Eiffel Tower, but that was to keep Lucy happy

Once off the train, we decided to walk down into the city as we had a bit of time to kill before we were able to get into our hotel room. Along the way, we found the roads at the end of the book, complete with the little brass markers in the ground. This was a little bit exciting for us. Following these markers, and we were then at the Louvre, but now was not the time to be entering as we had to do the ice skating first to keep Lucy happy. I know how to butter my bread !!!

Our hotel was a 10 minute walk to the Tower. Twenty if you get lost !!!!! We bought the tickets, had our bags searched, and they denied Lucy the chance to go onto the Tower. Why ? Because she had her own skates. Now our French is useless, just like the average Frenchman, can't understand Aussie. So, pissed off, we trudged on down the road until we came to the Statue of Liberty. Very small, the whole thing being the size of the USA's ones head, thus proving the old saying, "Everything is bigger and better in the good old USA"!!!!!

We dumped the skates back at the hotel, and ten minutes later, we were back at the Eiffel Tower. Climbed to the top, waited around an hour, then skated on a rink the size of a postage stamp. We also had to wear hire skates. Fucking horrible. Its like putting your feet in a used pair of socks that don't belong to you. We even managed to stay upright considering the shit that we had to wear. Back on the ground, we grabbed Lucy's skates, and headed out to dinner, which was had in a little Tibetan place we ...