Wallet: Day 18
Wow, what a difference a night of no partying can do for your body. I woke up this morning feeling the best I have felt on this trip. Elian and Daniel told us to be ready by 10 so we awoke and get packed up early. After taking a scaldingly hot shower, we headed down to the lobby to wait for them to arrive. Just as planned, they arrived at 10 and we were on our way to seeing the sights in Strasbourg.
With the little English and Hebrew we were able to communicate with we learned that the Cathedral in Strasbourg dates back over 600 years. The building itself is quite impressive. We walked around the old city and toured the new area as well. I spotted an REI looking store along the way and stepped in to replace the towel I had left behind in our mad dash out of the train from Budapest. 27 Euros later I had my replacement towel. Yikes.
We headed back to Eliane and Daniel's for lunch and enjoyed a delicious meal. Daniel took us to the train station around 3 and we got our tickets for a later train (at 5) to Paris as there were no remaining reservations for the train at 3:20. We decided to risk it and try to get on the earlier train. The conductor initially hesitated but eventually she gave in and told us to walk to the front of the train and get in. What we found at the front of the train was a private cabin with two doors isolating it from the rest of the cars. Baller. Status.
Once we made it to Paris we hopped off the train and celebrated getting there so quickly. Bree, Meghan's close friend was nice enough to offer us a place to stay in Paris. She had emailed me directions a few days earlier so we followed them and soon made it to her apartment. We were so intensely looking for her apartment that we didn't even notice the Eiffel Tower looming just two blocks away from us. Once we met up with Bree I got an overwhelming sensation, meeting up with someone familiar is something that is easy to take for granted.
We were shown her absolutely incredible apartment and dropped our bags and headed out all together. We headed over to meet with a few other Northeastern students studying in Paris on a canal in the city. The ride to the canal was intense, full of people jam packed into the metro cars. It was worth ever second as the evening was nothing short of incredible. We sat and enjoyed a typical Parisian summer evening, sipping wine with 1,000 or so of Parisian neighbors. Not long after we arrived we had run out of wine so Loyd and I went out to purchase some more. We were pleasantly surprised by the 3 Euro wine and bought a few bottles to share with the others. The evening was full of laughs and reminiscing about the incredibly city Boston is. Before we knew it, the metros were about to close so we hustled back to make it home. We emerged from the metro station at the best look out point at the Eiffel Tower and I had no choice but to snap quite a few pictures. Arriving home around 1:30 we all crashed.
So, from the shadow of the sparking Eiffel Tower, Au Revior!
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