We got up at 10, showered and checked out at 12 then we got the metro to the Louvre.
We wondered around the Louvre for ages! it was gorgeous, lots of stairs! We spent ages looking for the Mona Lisa, there was alot of anticipation, really was not as exciting as we thought!!
After we stopped for a crepe and coffee and went onto Sacre Couer, walked up a million stairs and sweated alot haha! Beautiful church and walked to the square (which I remember from my childhood visit with the family) there were lots of artists around the main square. We bought some icecream and some french postcards and came back to Barbes to collect our rucksacks.
We then departed for our first overnight train journey, 1 of many to come! Oh bumped into those creepy french harrasing men, even better this time we had rucksacks with us! Would not recommend staying in this area only because of the creeps hanging around the metro station!!
Sara's metro ticket hadn't been working numurous times while getting the metro for some bizarre reason! So she had to jump over the barrier before these men ate her!!!
We got on our overnight train, hoping for our own cabin, but we were joined by two chinese girls and it was a bit cramped!
Later that night we were joined by another girl making 5 in the 6seater cabin but it was very cramped especially with everyones luggage! Typical Leanne was able to sleep anyway! but Sara and I decided to retire to the bar, the best choice we could have made!!
In the bar we met 'Marcus Strudel' (absolute legend) an older man from Berlin who bought everyone drinks 'the party crew' We also got talking to a very amusing german boy while sticking our heads out the train window! when sara 'got something up her nose' haha!
The train splits in half during the journey and 1 half would goto Munich and the other to Berlin, the bar cart was going to Berlin (sad times), so Sara and I were worried the cart would depart with us on the wrong side as there was no warning of when the train was going to depart! We didn't want to strand Leanne in Munich with 3rucksacks while we went to Berlin with the 'Party crew'.
We got NO sleep that night!
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