Le Gai Paris

One of the wonderful things about living in London is access to the rest of Europe. Rumour has it that you can pop down to Paris and back for dinner, and while that might be a stretch, it's definitely an easy weekend trip.

David and I spent last weekend in Paris. We took the Eurostar there, which goes under the English Channel to Paris in just over two hours. I'm pretty sure it took us about two hours to get from Santa Monica to Hollywood on a Friday evening once when we were living in LA, so this is amazing.

We had a fabulous time eating, drinking and exploring. We didn't do a ton of touristy stuff, but we did climb the Eiffel tower (about 400 steps up, and then back down) to have a glass of champagne at the very top.

We did walk around and see many of the big hitters (which we had seen before when we were students, but that was long before Instagram!).

Pompidou

Arc de Triomphe

Notre Dame

David's future car (basically a glorified golf cart).

And what trip to Paris is complete without some escargot? We had a delicious dinner at Le Coupe Chou. Paris, we will definitely see you again soon!