Trip to Paris

When I finished my studies at the college in Hungary, I had a big travel plan to Europe. I promised myself: I will travel all of the Europeans capital cities, especially to Paris. But first I had to find a job, and I continued my studies at the University. One of my class mates at the Alma mater – who became a very great friend of mine – has known my idea, and she wanted to come with me. After four years at the University, when we will get our masters degree, we will have to deserve to take a trip to Paris. Katy, my friend, and I were classmates at the University at Pecs. We took weekend classes because, we worked in full time. We lived in Budapest: this is Hungary`s capital city. During these years – around 2000 - 2004 – Katy changed her job, I moved to my first condominium, and we studied and spent lots of time together. Because none of us visited Paris before, we were getting excited about this trip. First of all we had to complete our classes, which were an extremely busy period. The school was four hours far from Budapest; we traveled there by train for a long weekend in every mouth. In the last year we were tired about the school. After we completed our finals – written and verbal – we went to home and just booked the airplane ticket to Paris. Later we started to make a plan: how we will spend our seven days in that wonderful capital city. We were sure, it`s will be a girls trip, so we had to talk our partners. They were not too happy with this idea, but they understood it. In the middle of the summer, we got the flight, and we were in Paris. Our motel was not too far from the Moulin Rouge. We bought a Paris card and a transportation membership, and in this way we could save some euro. We woke up early morning every day, and after breakfast we just went to watch all of the famous places, Montmartre, Louvre, Scare – Coeur, Opera, Sorbonne. My hobby is to go to the theater in every city, wherever you are. We bought a discount ticket one of the small theater in downtown, so we watched the Chicago. We had a really good time on the Champs Elysees. We took a look at in every each of stores on this main street. We tasted several cheeses, pastries; we smelled unbelievable expensive and famous perfumes. Almost in the end of our trip, when we were at the Notre Dame we met some nice Australian guys. They invited us to the pub for the evening. Katy gave her phone number to them. She wanted to go hung out with them, I did not. My English was really poor at that time, so Katy talked with the gentlemen. Finally we canceled the party, but Katy and one Australian kept in touch. One year later Katy took a trip to Sydney, by herself. That was her challenge. In the next few years – until I moved to Seattle- we took some trip to other capital cities, for example: Vienna, Praga, Bratislava, Bergen, London etc.  I really enjoy traveling, especially with my very great friend. Currently we are so far from each other, and I hope she will have a chance to visit me as soon.