Hello London...Again!

We left Paris in the middle of the day. We arrived at the train station in time to take an earlier train but were unable to exchange our tickets. Instead we waited for our train we had booked weeks in advance. No big deal.

It was quite the interesting morning in Paris. The city was crowded as the Tour de France was taking over. So glad we left early for the train station because we were worried about being stuck in the area. We got a tour of some different parts of Paris as our cab driver did his best discovering alternate routes to get us to the train station. I kept looking at the meter as I knew we were down to our last few euros. We were trying to use them up and we budgeted well. We spent exactly what we had exchanged the second we arrived in France, giving our last Euros to the cab driver.

France has euros and Britain has pounds. That's why it was important to budget well in France so we didn't have euros left over. It was a little difficult at first getting used to the different currency. That is until we realized we had to stop equating everything to the US dollar, simply focus on each country's separate currency.

The hotel in France was decent. We were impressed the first day then noticed there was certainly a lack of attention to detail. Oh well, we dealt with it. It wasn't horrible by any means, but just an average hotel not quite deserving of it's above average rating. Man, it had the smallest and slowest elevator either of us has ever seen.

However, after dealing with that hotel we have been rewarded handsomely!  When we arrived at our new hotel for our 2nd London stay we were greeted with champagne. After checking in we were shown to our room. One lady carried in our champagne on a tray, while a bellhop delivered our luggage. As those two people were doing their jobs another guest services gentleman was pointing out all the perks of our executive room. As I stood back taking in what was going on, the fact that 3 people were catering to us at once, I started to question in my mind when we became celebrities or royalty? A large bouquet of flowers was placed in our room as well as a welcome card and a box of chocolates. After settling in this evening a small cheesecake was delivered wishing us a happy honeymoon. Sweet! I was surely hoping we had saved the best hotel experience for the last leg of our trip. We booked the 2nd most romantic hotel in London. So far its been quite an awesome experience!  The room itself is perfect. Lovely British charm...is the best way to describe it. Modern, yet it's classicly old fashioned British. I'll upload pics most likely tomorrow.

Visiting Buckingham Palace and taking an adrenaline junkie river boat cruise is on the schedule for tomorrow.  I heard about this special boat cruise described to be the perfect way to see the sights along the Thames river if you're a wild ride seeker. Well I know my husband! I knew Brad would be up for a wild adventure so I booked it. After I told him about it he was super excited!  In the brochure it looked similar to a wild river rafting experience. Should be fun!