The plane take off at its scheduled time, we reached the Amman international airport, in Jordan. the company correspondent, Ahmad, (is his name) was with us, he took us to the Hyatt grand hotel. We reached the hotel at 7:00 pm we were very tired, as we were on our feet from 9:00 am, and without lunch except the food served in the plane.
After we took a rest we gathered in the lobby of the hotel, Ahmad invite us for a dinner in one of the restaurant in the hotel, it was Thailand restaurant, serve special Asian food, mainly sea food. For the first time in my life I ate Shrimp and other Sea food, for the truth some of it was very delicious. we went to sleep at 12:00 pm to be ready for the next trip to Paris at 5:00 am.
We were ready at time, Ahmad took us to the airport, but unfortunately, he couldn't get the Visa to accompany us to Paris.
He gave us the tickets, the reservation in the Hotel in France and the phone number of the responsible person in Paris who suppose to meet us at the airport.
The direction of the plane was toward the west, so we gain two hour, the time difference between Iraq and France. The trip last 4.5 hours.
We reached Paris, there were a heavy rain in Paris at that time, the airport was over crowded. but we didn't found any body in the airport from the company, we keep looking for any sign or any thing to know if there is any one to take us to our hotel. All of us were in Paris for the first time, no one of us speak french, which was a big problem their.
After an hour or so of fruit less waiting, we called the number Ahmad gave us, when we informed that no body came to meet us because it was Sunday and it is weekend, but we get confirmation that the hotel reservation is OK, and we have to take taxis to the hotel by ourselves, and cars will be waiting for us next morning to take us to the company.
We took 3 taxis, gave the address to the drivers, they took us to our hotel which was in the city of Versailles. it take about an hour to reach the hotel in that rainy day.
We are now in France, Versailles is one of the most beautiful city I have ever seen.
to be continue
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3 comments:
This is a wonderful travel adventure you are descibing! I have never been to any of these places, and to see them through your words is a great enjoyment.
I'm with Waldschrat on this one... I've never been to France either, but I am enjoying hearing your description of it. It is rather like I'm seeing the place through your eyes (and the lens of your camera) as you describe your first impressions. Versailles sounds like somewhere I would enjoy visiting someday myself.
Pretty interesting, I so the photography on the latest post as well. It's cool. I've been there "et ailleurs", but it's always interesting to see things through somebody else's eyes!
To be honest, I wouldn't eat Thai food even if they paid me to do that. Sea food always reminds me of insects, just living in the sea :)) I used to eat oysters when I was a kid but I quitted on those as well.
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