20/1/2024
Today we were going to tour PARIS!!! We started by going on the metro (the metro is a kind of transportation group of vehicles, like: buses, trains, and subways) to the Arc de Triomphe.
To be totally honest, I thought that Paris was going to be a little more… Parisy. It just looked like any other city. The Arc de Triomphe was massive!
It was a gigantic arch and it had lots of main roads coming off it that went straight to other famous landmarks and buildings. We could also see the Eiffel Tower!!!
We spent ages trying to find Abi a gluten-free french bakery, and when we did, it was about 1:30! Abi got two sweet chocolate things and a very yummy looking toasted sandwich.
We found a French bakery, and I got an eclair and a very yummy hot dog, mum got a croissant and a pain au chocolat, and dad got a hot dog and a toasted-sandwich-like-thing-that-i-forgot-the-name-to. (Mum has just told me it's called a croque monsieur).
After lunch we hopped back on the metro and went to the Eiffel Tower! We walked up the many stairs to get to the first level (328 stairs to be precise). It was a great view! But we didn’t know that the second level had a… glass floor!!! Mum really didn’t want to go on it, but we eventually persuaded her. After a while of playing, we climbed up even more stairs to get to the second level. “622” I puffed out as we finally stepped onto the second floor.
I thought a building was on fire when I was climbing up the stairs. But when we got to the second level, dad said that the ‘smoke’ was actually just steam coming from a pipe behind the building.
The view for the second level was the second best! (The top level being the best) We could see almost a full view around the second level, but sadly they had shut off the rest because of snow. We could see the Arc de Triomphe!
We sadly had to go (I was sad because we had to leave, but Abi was sad because we had to do all 622 steps again!)
We walked to a place we had spotted when we were on the second level, and walked up there to take our regular family selfie.
!!! IT WAS A VERY FUN DAY !!!
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