This trip came about as Carol (Kim's mum) had planned to spend some time in Paris for her 70th birthday. She had rented an apartment on Rue St Denis in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, located Northwest of the Louvre. Carol had invited us, her sisters and one of her friends to stay for 7 days in June. What a nice idea to celebrate this milestone.
We then thought, what other European adventures could we work around before or after the week in Paris? So many possibilities, too much too see. Particularly as this would be our first trip in Europe (I did visit Holland and Germany when I was 3 or 4 years old, but that hardly counts).
We thought that rather than cramming the whole Euro experience in one trip and thus exhausting ourselves in the process, we decided to concentrate on two countries this time 'round.
As it turns out, the UCI downhill mountain biking world cup round was being held in Fort William, Scotland around the time of our stay in Paris. Also, Scotland = whisky. Keen. As.
On 2nd of June, we flew out of Canberra, Australia. CBR - MEL - KUL - DXB - CDG, phew! It was a bit rough with 30+ hours of transit time. We did get a fantastic deal on flights though, so mustn't complain too much. The main annoyance was with the KL and Dubai stopovers, we did not leave the terminals but had to go through security checks getting off and also getting back on the flight, and therefore losing our water bottles that we purchase at the airport every bloody time. Ridiculous.
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