Paris, Switzerland, stairs, and a lot of trains

Hi all,

Just got into our hostel in Zürich, Switzerland. After learning the hard way the importance of reserving a TGV train seat early (all the available trains today were full) we eventually made it here by taking 3 trains and a tram over 10 hours.

We visited quite a few places in France - our hotel (where we had to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get to our room) was a short walk from both the Notre Dame and the Louvre, which we visited on the first day (for some reason, noone seems to understand french for 'No photography'. We went with the flow) and took some of snaps (I'll chuck a few on here once we find an actual net cafe and not some kiosk where I can't actually access the pictures). We visited the Arc de triomphe and Eiffel tower the next day when it was colder, windier and raining - fantastic timing. It didn't stop us from climbing the multitude of stairs up the Eiffel, but it did make it really unpleasant.

On our final day, we visited the Catacombs under Paris, which was part sobering, part macabre, part stairs (172 to be exact).

Will make another post when we find a decent internet café - Biddo's searching for one right now...actually his kiosk just crashed. Wonderful.