Madame Soto Would Be Proud

On day two we took our luggage into town and found a left luggage place (heavy luggage, large hill). Then we went to Holyrood House which is one of the official residences of the British Royal Family. It was pretty, but not, like, amazing. I will compliment the way that the visits are set up though. Free headphone tour that is really easy. Also, another cool thing about Holyrood House was that it helped us piece together even more of british history. Like, the type of thing where a lot of the time we heard part of the story at Edinburgh Castle and then got the rest of it at Holyrood House. After Holyrood House we just walked up the Royal Mile to go to this place where we'd seen cheap postcards. Then all we had left to do was go get our luggage and hop on a bus to the airport. Well, much easier said than done. We got lots of bad directions (very common in europe I've decided) and ended up walking and sometimes running with all our luggage all over the place before finally catching the right bus. But luckily, though we thought we might be a little bit late, our flight was delayed once again and we made it just fine. We didn't get into Paris until like 10 oclock at night, and then it was a huuuuge ordeal to try to get to the hostel. We had to find the metro that would take us into town, which was pretty hard. Then we were on that for quite a while before switching to a few different metro lines in order to actually get to the right ending stop (Simplon). Then, luckily, a really nice guy helped us with our luggage. Otherwise I think we may have just never gotten to the hotel. I mean, there were soooo many stairs it was like walking up the arc de triumph. Anyway, after we got out onto the street he showed us where our hotel was and it was really really close, which was great. The hotel was like really.....French. What I mean is, it looked almost exactly like the hotel in Charade (movie with Audrey Hepburn in it that takes place in france). Like, it was really old fashioned and was just so authentic. Like, it wasn't in the center of the city and not in a touristy district, most of the people that stayed there were French, we had no idea how to use the toilet in our room, so we just used the one in the hallway which you actually have to pull a chain in order to flush, in order to use the shower you had to push a button every 30 seconds, and the elevator was just...special. We loved it. It had character. Well when we got to Paris we were really hungry and thirsty, so we went walking around in the area to try to find something to eat. We managed to find a small market where we got some water, but the only food we found was cafe food, which is really expensive. We ended up eating at a cafe that was actually closed, but the owner let us get something anyway, which was really nice. It was cool to walk around too because the area around our hotel was so pretty and we were just soooo excited. There was even a little carousel on one of the streets.