Smallest room EVER!

IT is definitely difficult to return to the Hostel life after Collioure was so good to us. As fate would have it, we managed to get a good deal of freebies while we were there. Whether intentionally given to us or not we wound up with one free nights stay at the hotel, one free bottle of wine and our favorite ice cream vendor who we saw at least once a day gave us free ice cream today! Truly this is the home of the gods. A perfect place full of perfect scenery. When we return one day, we will spend the whole week there and bring a car because the surrounding areas are ripe for touring.

It was difficult to leave, but alas we did. And we finally used our eurorail passes. That's right, at long last, the strike ended and we were able to use these exorbitantly expensive items for one train ticket each...needless to say, I am coaxing Megan to try to get Visa to issue a refund due to being misled regarding the ferry as well as the strike in France.

But all that negativity aside, WE ARE IN PARIS!!! And the city of lights is beautiful. We arrived at Gare Lyon (train station) at roughly 10:45. After much debate as to how to get to the hotel, I voted taxi, we found the nearest metro station and dove into the nether regions of the City of Lights.

We succesfully reached our Hostel, named Oops! at about 11:45 and are glad to be here. Despite the fact that this is the smallest room I have been in since Circe used to put me in the dryer, it is charmingly decorated in the haute coutoure with wall paper Megan loves. Did I mention it's small?

Anyway, that's all the update for now. The train was fast and comfy, the views wonderful, and right now, Megan is trying to figure out how to make the bed (seriously, they don't use anything but strips of cloth...hostels phooey.)

"I'm not sure these are clean...I just found a hair in it." -Megan re: the sheets

We may move to a hotel tomorrow.

Love to all
TW