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Before taking the train to Avignon Sol, Leonie and I went to Paris to visit the Cleeves family. Rachel, Tim, Eli and Maya are friends from Victoria who are on a sabbatical year in Europe as well. They took us in for a week, sharing their charming little apartment in the 14. arrondissement generously with us. The kids were delighted seeing friends from home and so was I!<\/p>\n

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with Rachel, Eli and Maya in the gardens of Versailles<\/p><\/div>\n

We did lots of fun and interesting stuff in this fascinating city:<\/p>\n

It was a walking-marathon-week, starting with the climb of the Eiffel tower as far up as the stairs would let us. Maya and Leonie had to hold my hands so I wouldn’t fly off with vertigo.<\/p>\n

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Maya and Eli each got a different day off school to spend with us. Wednesday school in France finishes early so the five of us explored the creepiest tourist attraction of Paris: The Catacombs. They were created at the end of the 18th century as an ossuary because the largest cemetery at the time was overcrowded \u00a0and had to be closed.<\/p>\n

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Underneath the houses and streets, even underneath the Metro system, you wander through a 200-mile network of old quarries with bones and skulls of 6 million, yes, 6 million, dead Parisians neatly stacked in caves and along tunnels. The children thought this was “cool”, which it was in the sense of interesting, unusual, and a bit freaky. I did feel compelled to remind them that this is a graveyard and that these remains, stacked into attractive patterns by workers, were once living people with joys and sorrows just like us.<\/p>\n

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Along the banks of the Seine we came accross a large black board and a bucket of chalk. \u00a0Once we were done, the board wasn’t black anymore!<\/p>\n

Other highlights of our visit were a falafel lunch at the Marais, the famous Jewish quarter of Paris;\u00a0a morning browsing through textile at the Fabric District just down the hill from\u00a0Sacre-Coeur with Maya and Rachel; the gardens of Versailles Palace, particularly Queen Antoinette’s Hamlet – and lots of fancy dinners cooked by Rachel & Tim with the freshest ingredients from nearby markets.<\/p>\n

The variety of foods in Paris blew me away: The countless artful designer-patisseries where one macaroon costs 3 $, aesthetically pleasing bakeries at every corner, heaps of interesting looking and smelling cheeses in the market streets – and in your regular supermarket; seafood vendors with shimmering oysters, snails and clams, not to forget a whole street lined with cr\u00eaperies!<\/p>\n

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Rachel et moi \u00e0 Versailles<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

In Paris I finally found a place for us three to go to next: a place in Southern France where we could stay and practice French without the kids having to go to school. We found that peaceful place in Avignon. So on February 3 we said Goodbye to our friends and boarded the fast TGV train South.<\/p>\n

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