Day 7 - Paris to Mol

Written by Stephen Hall with Brett Schnitzerling & Glenn Harris

The only thing that got Brett & Glenn out of bed today was the croissants and coco pops waiting down stairs. I went down earlier and sat with a jumble of different nationalities eating breaky. Both the guys were feeling a bit sorry for themselves but we shared some stories and had a chat about the night before. We went back up to our room and slowly packed our things to check out by 11am. The plan for the day was to catch the subway to go and see the famous Louvre Museum (home to Leonardo Davinci's Mona Lisa). We had a pretty good hang of the train system by now and didn't head the wrong way several times like the day before. Just as we were about to enter the museum we realized how hungry we were and decided to stop for food first. Baguettes were beautiful and reasonably cheap, we did look for frogs legs but it turns out they are actually quite difficult to find.

Stocked up on food, drinks & lollies we returned to the museum and took some photos with the glass pyramids outside. We sat down for awhile admiring the sights which were extremely busy and somehow didn't notice the waiting line stretching through the entire courtyard. The waiting time to enter was expected to be up to 2 hours and it had started to rain so we decided to bail on the museum. We walked through Paris for awhile before taking a seat at a restaurant for salad & a drink. The weather was pretty miserable by now so we mainly hid out underneath the shelter and waited for the rain to pass. As usual we got horribly lost on our way back to the Hostel and had at least an hour long detour in the rain. The other things we had planned for the day had fallen through because of the bad weather so we decided to head home earlier than expected.

We boarded the train back to Belgium at 5.30 and finally arrived back at our doorstep 3 hours later. As usual we ate as soon as we got home and sat down to relax as our feet were killing. It was a great experience and we thoroughly enjoyed our time in Paris but for the next two weeks we have a big racing / training schedule ahead which should really test our legs. All the boys are looking forward to it and we hope we can get up for a good result in our next kermesse on Friday in Shriek Fons.