My second visit to Paris

I returned to Paris this past Sunday at 8am or so in the morning. Amanda met me at the train station and we went straight to our Hotel. After dropping our bags off we again set off to explore the city of Paris for the second time. My first visit to Paris was dreadful and I had been regretting my decision to fly out of Paris for the past two months. However, during my stay in Salamanca, I met a nice french girl by the name of Caroline and she place Paris in a whole new light. Because of her I decided to give Paris a second chance and to approach it anew. I am very glad that I did.

My second trip to Paris was awesome. I now love Paris and I will definitely return someday. On sunday we walked through several of the Sunday markets that are littered throughout the city, I had completely missed these on my first visit. The markets are great. We also visited Notre Dame and many of the cities parks. Before going to the top of one of Paris' tallest buildings we stopped by the Cementary of famous French people (not the location of Jim Morrison), it was pretty amazing. I?saw the grave of Photographer Man Ray. After going to the top of one of Paris' tallest buildings we had lunch at a small cafe. The waiter was courteous and somewhat understood our order even though we were speaking the worst broken french that you can imagine.

On the walk back to our hotel we discovered a new district near the museum of Modern Art that we did not see on our first visit to Paris. The district was alive with shops, sidewalk vendors and people of all ages. It was great. Everyone there was courteous, friendly and I feel extremely comfortable in the area. The next day we returned to this area again and had lunch at an outdoor diner situated on one of the corners. The waiter was, again, courteous, friendly and incredibly hospitable a completely change from what I had encountered during my first visit.

On Monday we visited the Louvre for 7 or 8 hours and we still didn't see the entire thing. We did, however, walk through every single room that was open and at least viewed many if not all of the artifacts held in the Louvre. I took several pages of notes and an insane amount of photos.

So in short, Paris is great just make sure that you stay a few days and stay away from the ultra touristy areas. I shall return.....