We took the TGV train from Niort to Paris.

As we all already knew the city we decided to spend our four days in the French capital just wandering around. And this is certainly one of the best things to do in Paris, which is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. With its fascinating and imposing architecture, for everywhere we look, we think: “What historic building is that?” and often it’s just another residence building. Paris is definitely too beautiful!

We arrived on Sunday and spent the day and our first night with Carol’s cousin, Ingrid, and her family. Marcelo had prepared a delicious Brazilian bean that made everyone happy and as it was a rainy day we enjoyed to stay at home to catch up.

After we moved to Alexis’s, Claudie, that leaved right in front of the tranquil park Montsouris and we were greeted with a delicious French dinner .

The next day began an exhibition of street art called “Tour 13 Paris” in a building that would be demolished in early 2014. After 2 hours queuing we finally got in! The building had almost all the apartments in its nine floors decorated with street art, all made by 100 artists from 16 different nationalities. This is the biggest street art exhibition ever and we believe it will be a pity to demolish this building. We loved the visit and it was worth the wait!

We had a dinner that with Alexis’ family that live in Paris in the beautiful and old apartment of his cousin, Anne. Another super nice and relaxed night with great food. Alexis was happy to see everyone again.

On the other days we walked and walked, wandering around through the charming neighborhoods of Paris and this time we didn’t even step on Champs Elysée and the Eifel Tower. It is always good to go back to Paris.

The day we went to Montmartre we met again Etienne, the French we had met in Cuba and traveled together a few days in Mexico.

After lunch we went for a coffee in the bar of the famous movie Amelie Poulain. It was a pleasure to see him again for some good laugh.

On our last night we had diner with Gaëlle and her friend Alexandra in a Corse Restaurant. One last good bye!

And Alexis took the night to see the one man show of Dieudonné, a French comedian that he loves. He was very happy.

Our journey in France ends here and now we leave for the last stop of our trip… The beautiful Italy.