Back in Paris

Dave decided this morning to change our Holiday Inn reservation to something "more adventurous." We are staying nearer the airport we need to fly out of on Monday morning. Unfortunatley this hotel, the  Kyriad in Parc des Expositions,  is in an industrial park area, and so there are no markets or restaurants nearby. We walked to the only thing somewhat close, Speed Rabbit Pizza, and had a lovely dinner. They have a logo that includes Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the movie.

To recap the rest of the dsay getting here, we left Budapest this morning, taking multiple modes of transportation and winding up at the airport in time to eat a meal and spend the rest of our forints.  Amazingly enough, you can buy underwear at stands in the metro subway stations, and there are people on the street selling things from bags - like the woman shaking a handful of brassieres at me outside the grocery store.  What was that about?

We then boarded SleazyJet and settled into our seats as possibly the only people not traveling with children under the age of 10, most of whom were fussing or talking loudly.  The flight wasn't full, so we had a row to ourselves. We landed at the Orly airport, bought passes to the RER train, and set out for the other airport region to find our hotel.  All this went reasonably well, and we met a young man who was trying to navigate the RER/Metro system to find his hostel.  He was from Australia and we talked about things he could do in Paris for a few days that were cheap.  It reminded me of Emily and her jaunts around Turkey.

We are planning on crossing town again tomorrow and going to Versailles, one of the highlights we both wanted to hit that we haven't seen yet.  We fly out early Monday and get back to the US on Monday evening.