Rockin in Rouen

The next AirBnB place we booked was in Rouen - a young couple's apartment who were away for the week. It was close to downtown and  very cute.  The photo below was the kitchen and dining and lounge all combined and was about half the size of the apartment.  The rest of the apartment had a laundry/shower-room (the shower had good pressure but was the size of a normal person in all dimensions - any unchecked motion would result in bumping the mixer tap and scolding yourself or falling through the shower curtain onto the toilet.  There was however a nice little sound system that you could plug your laptop into.

Rouen itself is a very interesting town with a distinct medieval feel.  Below is some of the surrounds of the Place du Vieux Marche in Rouen where Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.

Below is the Eglise Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in the same square.

 ...also managed to watch the Crows down the Saints on the lappy with an odd Leffe or two.

Paris Pandemonium

Arrived in Paris after a LONG haul flight, picked up the Peugeot 308 with a whopping 2.5 km on the clock, and headed off on the wrong side of the road (which is the right side here so all was good).  Nothing like jumping into the deep end with the driving - Paris just happened to have a train strike on our arrival so the roads were PACKED with angry drivers and one jet-lagged, still-finding-his-feet driver.  Managed to stay on the wrong/right side of the road without incident until right at the end of our journey into Paris when I clipped my right mirror - only damage was my pride.  Our first AirBnB experience was a very nice apartment in Vincennes.  It also had a quaint little courtyard which, if the weather had been better, would have been very nice for a soothing ale or two but Lea enjoyed some time out there with her coffee/cigarette combos.

We had 3 nights in Paris and it took until the last day until we made it to the city centre. We never seemed to get too much further than the local tabac around the corner.. well they did serve good coffee, Leffe beer and rose.

Here is the Tour de l'Horloge on our way to find the gothic Sainte Chapelle.

And here is Lea posing in front of the gates of the Palais de Justice de Paris with the Sainte Chapelle  and its spectacular spire in the background - c'est manifique!

Next stop Rouen...