Saturday, the 17th of March

the Luxembourg Palace

     The day began with taking our luggage to the lockers in Austerlitz train station. After that our group was divided into two separate groups: one went on a city tour, put through by Annie Molleton, and the other went on a trip on river Seine. Both of the city tours were extremely fascinating and the lectures were easy to follow. The „landlubbers“ visited Notre-Dame, the Luxembourg’s garden, the Marais block, Place des Vosges and the place where Bastille castle used to be. We also visited Île Saint-Louis which is an island next to Île de la cité and crossed le Pont-Neuf. The ones, who went on the river, got to admire the bridges and other riverside sights of Paris.

Annie is a teacher from Amboise who guided us around Paris

     After the city tour, we sat on a train to Amboise and after two hours, at 19:35 we were there. Our pen-friends were at the train station to welcome us. Then they took us to our new homes.

Diana's Saturday
     Saturday was almost as exhausting as Friday, Paris is just too big. We all still enjoyed the view that Paris offered us. Most of all I liked that we saw what life in Paris really looks like. We saw a lot of beauty. In the evening when we were going to Amboise, we were all glad to finally get some rest and we were also anxious about meeting our pen friends.