There was a week break not to long ago and for the break my friend Lindsey and I decided to couchsurf through Paris and Brussels. Couchsurfing is a hospitality program that allows travelers to find hosts in other cities and countries who will allow them to stay at their house/apartment and learn what it is like to be a local in that city. It's a great program with a great cause of universal friendship. Also it's free.
Our train was late getting in to Paris, there was something wrong with how fast it should have been able to go and wasn't able to maintain speed. It was fine though because I dozed off multiple time and the man in a seat by me was reading a book about India that looked interesting. I also attempted to do some homework.
When we got into Paris we had no idea what to do. It was cold and almost deserted because we got in close to 11 o'clock. We had a general direction that we knew we had to go, but we weren't sure how to get there. We bought tickets for the metro, and unfortunately didn't know how to connect to another one yet. Being tired ant the lack of subways in Nantes helped with this.
So we took the metro to a sort of sketchy area of Paris, and then walked down the street for maybe an hour. And as we crossed over the Seine we saw the Tower. It wasn't on the hour so it wasn't sparkling but it was lit up and was very striking against the dark Parisian night.
After wandering for what seemed like forever more we found the address we were looking for. Our host was nice and offered us dinner and it was a nice end to the first half day in Paris.
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