Our flight to Paris could not have been better. No adventures and on time. We had to make our way to baggage claim since my bag was checked at the gate, but waited only about 10 minutes before it appeared.
During that 10 minutes I received a text from Steve Hyatt with the news that Osama had been killed and the State Department was cautioning Americans abroad to be careful and vigilant. Great, just what you want to hear when you land in Paris!
We shook that off and headed to the exchange to pick up some Euros for the taxi ride into Paris. The exchange rate was pretty bad, so we would not recommend exchanging at the airport - Jenny got a better deal at the bank before we left. The taxi ride from CDG is about 40-45 Euros, depending on where you are heading in the City. Round up to the nearest ten in tipping on a taxi fare and you are at 50 E.
Normally we are public transportation users when traveling abroad, but given we were headed to an island in the Seine (no Metro stop) it seemed best to take a taxi -- that and our landlord "strongly recommended" it. The taxi ride turned out to be great - it being a Mercedes Benz taxi didn't hurt the comfort factor. Amazing how many taxi's are MB's in Paris.
We were met at the apartment by our landlord's assistant, who gave us a quick tour of all the essentials. It was overcast, raining on and off, so it seemed a good time to nap. We both crashed.
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