"E" : Holidays in Paris

Last Summer, I was in Paris during three days.

I will tell you about this trip. My family travelled there for the first time because my parents said: “children, you have to see the Eiffel Tower”.

The first day we took the underground of Paris, called the “Métro”. I was very impressed because there are many lines, many passengers and many stops.

When we arrived at the Eiffel Tower we were excited. The tower is tall and we are so small. Now we could either take the elevator or walk to reach the top of the Eiffel tower. We decided to take the stairs up to the second floor. There are one thousand stairs to go up and after ten minutes we had a splendid view on the enormous city of Paris. I was thrilled: houses, streets, avenues, monuments, roofs, chimneys everywhere. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, I heard thirty different languages because people come from all over the world to see Paris.

The second day we visited the church called “Sacré Coeur”. It is located on the hill of “Mont Martre”. First we visited the Sacré Coeur and then we sat on the stairs in front of the church where we watched a street artist who juggled with his soccer ball on a lamp post without ever dropping his ball. At the end of his performance, the public gave him a coin.

Then we walked to the main square of Mont Martre: there were many painters who did portraits of tourists.

We found a typical French restaurant there, too, where my brother and I ate pizza and ice cream.

On the third day we visited some museums of Paris. We needed to make a choice. We are interested in nature and animals, we decided to visit the Museum of Paleontology first and then the “Galérie de l'Evolution” which is the National Museum of Natural History. This is a huge building with a black background and a line of animals living in the desert in the front: elephants, giraffes, bears, gazelles. In another part of the museum, we saw animals living in the oceans of the world: fish, sharks, swordfish, whales and dolphins and huge ocean turtles. Upstairs, we discovered a big hall with animals that will soon be extinguished. Some animals have already been extinguished and they can only be seen in museums.

On the fourth day we drove to “La Villette” which is the Technical Museum of Paris. Next to the museum there is “The Géode”, a round building, which looks like a huge ball floating on water. It is a special cinema where you can see films about nature such as the Grand Canyon in North America or historical films about the Second World War or fishermen and their children on a Southern Pacific Island. We chose the film about the island. The screen was very high, very large, and almost round. When we saw the little boy diving in clear sea water we thought we were diving next to him.

We spent four very busy days in Paris: everyday we took the noisy underground, we walked a long time in the streets and the parks until our legs hurt. We also met very poor people who live in phone boxes and in the underground and who always beg for money because they have no home, no work and no school for their children. This was very shocking for my brother and me. But most of the experiences I made were new for me: I visited monuments that I saw for the first time, I enjoyed Montmartre and also the “Notre Dame Cathedral” along the Seine River and I also liked playing soccer in the Park of the “Tuileries” with a new soccer ball from Paris St Germain. I would like to go back to Paris soon to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower (and not only to the second floor) and to visit the “Louvre Museum” and also take a “Bateau Mouche”, a tourist boat on the Seine river.

We returned to Grenoble with lots of good memories in our mind and we will try to go to Paris again soon because we loved it.

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