Wednesday, October 29th

The Louvre: I.M. Pei
The Eiffel Tower: Gustav Eiffel (also designed the structure for the Statue of Liberty)

This was a travel day. We woke up early, excited to get out of our dirty hostel, and rode the hour bus ride to the Ryanair airport and flew to Paris. Ryanair is cheap because they drop you off an hour away from the city. I think this way they don’t have to pay the high parking fees at near-city airports. So from the airport to Paris, we had to jump on another bus for a hefty fee and rode for an hour and a half into Paris. I sat next to a Spanish girl who was studying outside of Paris. I had to speak very slowly and not mumble for her to comprehend my English. It was like having two language barriers, (Spanish to English, and English to my English).

The Barcelona hostel we stayed in was disgusting and the sheets were definitely not clean. The Paris hostel was a ten bed room. This was a lot better and cleaner.