HandS Travel

So it may sound cliche, getting Engaged in Paris, but really how many people do you personally know who have actually gotten engaged in Paris?  Well now you know at least one (or two if you count us both).  (Pictures of the ring at the bottom of the post) Henry’s Story My story about this [...]

Rude? – Even though most people say the French are rude, we actually find them to be very nice, and overly nice in some cases.  When we were standing Place Vendome looking at rings, a random Parisian walked by and made a comment about needing to work hard to buy a ring, at first she [...]

On our final day in Paris Sheila had a few different things planned…We wanted to go to mass at Notre-Dame even though it would be entirely in French.  We got there however and the mass had been canceled for some reason, we of course did not understand why as the signs were all in french.  [...]

The bathrooms in Paris have proved to be quite the experience.  We have been confused every time we need to use “les toilettes”.  Every single one seems to be sort of a combo of men and women restrooms, but still sort of separate.  I know it sounds confusing, and it is.  Sinks for washing hands [...]

Today we we visited one of the most famous art museums in the world, the Louvre.  The Louvre is MASSIVE, it contains over 35,000 pieces of artwork, we would try and hit just a few.  We started early in the day and saw the most famous piece first just to get it out of the [...]

We had planned much for our second day in Paris, but actually ended up doing more than planned.  We started out by walking through the Jardin des Tuleries, the giant gardens between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde and not far from our hotel.  On the other side of the Jardin was the Musee [...]

After arriving in Paris, we learned our second French phrase. Henry already knew, “Parlez vous anglais?” which means “Do you speak English?”. Our taxi driver replied, “un petit” which means “a little” but Henry thankfully pointed to the hotel address which he had printed in anticipation of this situation. We arrived at our hotel, only [...]

So I’ve started writing this post somewhere underneath the English Channel.  We are currently aboard the Eurostar train from London to Paris, a short 2.5 hour train ride.  Using my handy GPS I’ve noticed we hit as high as 186mph in the UK, just an interesting tidbit.  Anyhow, we are both very excited to be [...]