And we arrive. I'm here the city of love, romantic, beautiful and ready to explore. So we begin, out of the train station, Anna and I head to the subway. Thank god Anna knows the subway being here only 5 days prior I just follow. I can't tell you how much I love that she knows where she's going...that's half the battle most of the time. We arrive at our stop, get off walk up and head to the rental for the night. It's not close to the center but cheap. It's in a shady neighborhood, oh but it gets shadier. We wait in a n alley where we arrive at the address. Nothing is open, it's Sunday. I don't get it yet but there are women standing around, walking up and down the street, and men everywhere.
We are waiting for the guy when 2 women arrive to let us in. They explain to us that the door will be locked so we must enter from the other side later. We walk thru the door and there to my right is a womenish man..maybe and we look at each other and keep walking. My mind at the moment just trying to be aware and figure out what's happening. Where we are and how I'd rather sleep in the center then stay here. I won't leave Anna but I don't have a good feeling. We walk up 6 floors of an unfinished wood spiral staircase. We walk thru a 2.5ft walk way into the room. It's tiny, about the size of a queen bed and I'm not kidding. The toliet and shower are in the same spoy.
I connect my phone to the charger and all of a sudden I hear moaning in the room next to ours! HOLY SHIT, WE ARE IN A WHORE HOUSE!! It finally hits me! I whisper to Anna and begin to laugh. The I can't believe this is happening laugh and do we stay or go..crap! We hear more foot steps, we are getting ready to leave. We open the door and head down the stairs, another whore and man are walking up and Anna whispers go go go go go go ..I pass another 3 on the way out. So now we are walk on the street not much better. What happened to the romantic city? It's not so romantic when you see it from the real point of view, what it really is. Everything is different when you have a lot of money to stay in fancy hotels and eat at the best places. Of course one day I'll experience that too, but I will appreciate this city much for for the fact that I understand how it really is. So by foot we arrive to Nodre Damn, Anna is very excited. I'm indifferent but it's beautiful. There's a lonnnngggg line to get in and right in the front Anna steps in. I said what are you doing we ca....she replies "why not". Okay fine, it's actually a great idea. We walk in to the Cathedral and it's breathtaking. Admiring all of it, walking, thinking, looking WOW. We walk outside and get a view from the back, just as beautiful. We continue our walk along the river, through the streets of Paris. We stop to get an espresso and croissant and I can see in the distance the Eiffel Tower. I think to myself I'm here I'm really here I can't believe it. We take our time walking there, when we get there I see it I think it's pretty plain. I was expecting much more. But it's a whole different situation where the lights go down. We find a local cafe close by. We sit and watch the passerbys as we are having beers, dinner and have a few more drinks. We get the check and walk back right before the lights go down. Anna wants a bottle of wine and since everything was closed we are just walking. I see the street peddlers selling beer, wine, champagne. I offer him 5€ for the bottle. He says 10€ okay deal grab our champagne and grab a seat in the grass...Again we have to pee...in search for a public bathroom there's nothing. We go into a cafe and ask to use the washroom, she's annoyed, only for customers. We'll buy something I respond. She says it's downstairs and don't leave it a mess. Why would she say that, like we are going to throw a party. Anyway we leave an d run back to the green. The lights are sparkling we pop the champagne, listen to the live music and relax. We walk to another spot the peddlers are still selling beers and such. He wants 5€ for 3 mini Heineken I tell him 3 for 3 but we settle at 4,50€. As they continue to come up to us I tell them you want to give me that and they do. We each got a little gift and before you know it they are all around us. Pretty girl be my girlfriend. .ok it's a sign its time to go lol..Anna and I laugh, if I'd known this would happen we wouldn't have stayed at the cafe so long. I managed to also get a free bottle of champagne. Right after they gave it to us we made a run for it.
So now we are headed back to the whore house but this time it's about 1 a.m. and we are a little tipsy. We hop on the subway, laughing the whole way about the night. We get off at our stop head down the block and get to our area. People are starring at us but we don't care so much. We are trying to remember what entry is ours...we use the key fab and it let's us in a few long walk ways we run up and down, opening doors and running back out. We can't find it. We are still laughing but seriously have to find we we are staying...finally we find d the familar door. There's the stairway to hell...we run up and quickly open and shut the door and lock it behind us. We are drunk, we open the futon and lay down. We have to be up in a couple hours. I slept off and on, the alarm is going off, I turn it off but wake up at 6:60a.m. we are late. Anna jumps up and shouts we are late we have to go and puts on her shoes. Looses her balance. . .she is concerned I might miss my flight to London that I booked the night before. I on the other hand am laughing hysterically again. I'm not sure if I will continue to go north. It's expensive to get around and I have no set plans. I try to figure out a way to get around to see friends but nothing is working out the way I want. I also want to sit on the beach and drink so beers and chill.
We leave the place in 10 minutes, double check we have everything and out we go. The ride to the airport is 40 minutes with a transfer in between. It's there I'm checking on my phone. We arrive at the airport. Annas terminal is not by mine. We say goodbye and safe travels. We've already exchanged information to keep in touch.
I head to the terminal, I decide I'm going to Greece. I book the ticket at the airport, it leaves in 2 hours.
Here I come sun! 🌞
