Paris highlights

Just a short flight across to Paris this time.  We were pleasantly surprised by how straightforward it was to fly out of Gatwick and especially how family friendly Easyjet are.  The only bit of trouble we had was the long wait on the tarmac for our turn to take off - in the end we waited for longer than the duration of the actual flight.  But we made it in the end and picked up our car with no issues (other than me twisting my ankle!  Ooops) and found our way to our apartment in Pantin.



We visited Paris twice on our 2012 trip, so only had 3 days booked there this time.  We spent a day at Disneyland which the boys will fill you in on I'm sure.  The other two days we spent sight seeing in the city and around Pantin.  We weren't quite as lucky with the weather in Paris as we were in London, so we got VERY wet at Disneyland and had to dodge raindrops in the afternoon around Paris as well.  I made it to Laduree and introduced the boys to macarons and we did an open top bus tour around all the big sites to tick those off ;)  We spent Sunday in the city so it was pretty quiet which was a bonus.



As always in France, one of the big highlights was exploring the supermarkets and trying new food.  We had several supermarkets within walking distance of our apartment, but still made a trip in the car to a big Carrefour before we drove up to Utrecht on Wednesday!  Suddenly, our big car doesn't seem quite as big and we certainly have more than two suitcases worth of stuff now that we have filled up the car with extra pillows and kitchen supplies.