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Tour Happy Together by Accord

28 July 2010 • Travel time: with 22 May 2010 on 05 June 2010
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Initially, the Paris+B&Lux tour was planned for spring 2009. But there was a peak of the crisis and last spring we went on another trip with a Kyiv tour operator. When in 2010 it was necessary to decide on a tour in the direction of Paris + BeniLux, I looked at the sites of tour operators known to me. And until a certain moment I had only one option - "European fireworks". Tours from Artex and Incomarthur in this direction were not competitive. But then came the Accord tour. And everything became completely different. After making a comparison with "Fireworks", I settled on the "Happy Together" Accord tour. M. b. this is superfluous, but I will give the arguments that inclined my choice in favor of the Accord.

1. Number of nights. Accord has 14 nights in a hotel, and Feeria has 12 nights in a hotel + 2 nights in a train. We will not particularly find fault with the "stars" of hotels, although Anjou (and earlier Etap) is STRONGLY known.

2. I have to go to Kyiv and Lvov by train. i. e.


on the 2nd day of the Fairy tour, after 2 nights and 1 day in trains (especially Polish - whoever was, he knows what I mean), not very fresh, it is necessary to explore Berlin before lunch.

3. The cost of the tour. The difference between tours according to the tour + visa + insurance scheme is 140 euros. For the Accord. What additional excursions can be bought for this money on the Accord tour - for example, Saxon Switzerland, Lux, Ghent + Bruges. At the same cost, the excursion content of the tour at the Accord is better, IMHO.

4. Time in Paris. The quantity is the same, but for the Accord it is Wed-Sat, and for the Fairy Sat-Tue. Wed, Thu, Fri - these are the days when the Louvre and Orsay are open until 22:00 and you don’t have to spend daylight hours visiting museums - it’s critical with a decrease in daylight hours. Mon, Tue are days off in most museums. And an important detail - on the Accord tour you get to Paris still fresh.

1 day. We were warned in advance that the check-out would be at 10:30. I don’t know the reasons, but we left Lviv at 10:30. There were 2 groups on the bus - one group went to Switzerland and ours.

Separation was to take place after crossing the border.

Last year we went by road to Krakow, only the tour operator was Kyiv, and this year the same road. It can be seen that the Poles are building roads. From Lviv to the border, there is not the slightest sign of road work - apparently, Ukraine is already ready for the European Championship 2012. Why spoil your face - one lane is enough.

When we left Lviv, then for forgetful tourists they offered starter packages to reduce the cost of mobile communications. If I'm not mistaken, they were called sim travel. I don't know the rates. At the last gas station before the border, those who wished replenished their water and food supplies.

For the thrifty: there is no need to stock up on water and food in Ukraine, because in the Czech Republic you can buy water and food at the same prices. They didn’t buy food - the wife roughly compared prices, and they bought water in Prague for 10 crowns for 2 liters of soda. Non-carbonated - 8 kroons.


We crossed the border in 2 hours without delays and problems.

After crossing the border, we drove for 20-30 minutes, and our small group boarded a Polish bus. Our guide Andrey distributed a modified program and...it was a VERY pleasant surprise from Accord - the program was changed for the better from the original version. Then the move took place under the explanation of the head of the group and the discussion of the new program. We arrived at about 22:00 European time (everything further - European time) to the Sigma Hotel in Olomouc. www. cpihotels. cz

Here and further on the hotels - all the data from their business cards. Paving stones were laid in front of the main entrance, so we stopped 50 meters from the main entrance. While unloading, the guide decided all the questions at the reception and only handed out the keys. As soon as we got up to the room, I turned on the TV, found the Champions League final and then Milito scored the 2nd goal. I watched the final, although I wanted Bayern to win.

Day 2 Breakfast. Departure to Prague. In Prague around 12:00.

I don’t know how anyone, but I don’t get tired of Prague. Money exchange. The course is 1 euro = 25 kroons. At 13:30 a sightseeing tour of Prague is scheduled. We are meeting at 13:30. We learn from the guide good, but not promoted pubs. The guide asks what hotel we will live in and answers that there are a lot of such establishments in the area where we will live. In the center advises "Hedgehog" and "At Ferdinand's". I heard about "At Ferdinand's, but have not yet reached it - it is located on Opletalova. " We don’t go to the survey - we were, we saw, we heard. We find out the collection time after the survey and go to drink beer and have something to eat. For some reason, Ferdinand's was closed, but 100 meters away was either a restaurant or a sports bar (t-shirts with signatures on the walls). There we marked the beginning of the tour. We met with the group and went to the hotel. Stayed at the Esprit Hotel


The group went on some excursions, and we, on the advice of a guide, to search for Czech drinking establishments in our area. The search took place literally to the corner of the block.

The prices were also surprising - beer 18-21 kr per half liter, food from 70 kr. And from 11 to 15 you can eat some menu for 80 kr. We freshen the throat in a ratio of 2:1 (2 for me, 1 for my wife). Move on. Painted personalities begin to come across. It turns out that KISS is rocking out in Prague today, and we are 300 meters away from the kickoff place - the O2 arena. Yes, the patch is out. Accord did not warn us about the train to KISS : ) and we were not ready.

The rest of the day was spent wandering around the city, drinking beer and watching the finals of the Ice Hockey World Cup.

The strange thing is, my wife has a very good guide to the quality of beer and wine. If she drinks more than 0.5 liters of ANY Ukrainian beer, then her head starts to hurt. And after the Czech 1.5l, I didn’t get sick in a day. I'll just keep silent about my number. Probably the Czechs poured water : )

And late in the evening we found out that the Czechs are the 2010 World Hockey Champions. At the same time, watching TV was not at all necessary.

Day 3 According to the plan, this day was supposed to be an optional excursion to Dresden.

But we were there and we don't need to go there. If there had been Saxon Switzerland instead of Dresden, we would have gone. And so a free day. My wife likes Karlovy Vary (KV), I can't stand this "Czech Yalta". Not big trades with mutual concessions and we are going to CV. The cost is 145 kr for one ticket. Especially in KV I don’t lean on beer, I know that I’ll get my own in our district of Prague. I returned to the hotel when my wife was already asleep.

Day 4 At 8:00 we leave for Nuremberg. 1 hour only we leave Prague. The Czechs are building some kind of tunnel to relieve traffic. Around 12:30 the walking tour of Nuremberg starts (1.5 hours), then free time. Lunch in Nuremberg (20s). We managed to drink beer in 2 places: near Durer's house - 3.2 euros. And near the cathedral, where they ate sausages - 2.9 euros.


After beer, before the road, I need to relieve myself - I go to the toilet in some store and then a burgher woman mutters something to me in German. My first reaction to her remark is SHO?

They laughed at her answer for a long time:

You sho - in Odessa - come in.

Bought groceries for the evening at the same store. In general, if the arrival is after 20:00, then it is better to play it safe - the road, the equipment.

At 17:00 we left for Mannheim. When discussing the next day, the guide suggests leaving for Paris at 7:00. There are no objectors. In Mannheim we were at the Balladins Hotel around 20:30. www. balladins. de In the hotel, in addition to the minimum required, an electric kettle. Some of the rooms had microwaves. We went out for a walk in the evening Mannheim without something 9. I was guided by the store a block away from us, which closed at 21:00, but people still came in. An hour wandered around Mangeyu and returned to the hotel. During this time, we saw a cathedral, some kind of university (or ?? ? ? ), and a museum with huge painted eyes on the facade.

Day 5 The Germans have breakfast from 6:00. And in German hotels there were a variety of breakfasts. Starting from cold cuts (5-6 types) and ending with fresh peeled and chopped pineapples. Previously, we only had Chinese for breakfast.

I personally saw how this locust dragged some of its grass in bags for breakfast. We left the hotel at 7:00. Who did not sleep, fit the entire width of the row. In Paris, the driver made a circle - two around the hotel area due to the navigator and single-lane traffic. At the Paris hotel Suite-Home Paris Porte de Pantin were around 13:00. In the room, in addition to all the necessary attributes, there were: an electric stove, a toaster, an electric kettle, dishes (knives, forks, plates, glasses) and a dishwasher.

I will add for women - hair dryers were and worked in hotels.


Without something, 2 left the hotel, because at 14:30 a meeting with a guide was scheduled at Concord Square and the group was driving to Versailles. We drove 45-50 minutes from the hotel to Concord Square and were a bit late. Unlike the group, we had our own program in Paris and it did not coincide with the group program.

The tour was for the wife, so she chose what she wanted to visit. I just added a little.

We parted with the group at Concorde Square, a small photo session. Here and below, next to all the objects mentioned, there is a photo (90% of the photos from the tour are the wife against the background of something), and behind the museum map. Near the Orangerie Museum and it is in it that I decide to buy 2 museum cards. There is a small queue at the entrance, but people come up from the side, stand in a separate queue and are the first to let them through. My wife asks me why I skip them before. I answer - they have a map. He asks - why don't we? I answer - now we will buy. Day 5 of the tour - May 26. You can buy a card for 2 days, fill it out yourself, and then fix it for May 28. But there is a risk that somewhere they will put a stamp with the date and then you have to buy for another 2 days. And you can buy for 4 days and not steamed. The wife says that the miser pays twice, and advises buying for 4 days. The cost for 2 days is 32 euros, for 4 days - 48 euros. Bought 2 cards for 4 days.

A man with glasses enters their serial numbers into the computer and asks in English whether you will use it now or not. Orangerie was not in our program, so I ask my wife - she answers, since we are here, let's go and see. I answer the man that now he is going to stamp the date of the start of using the card. Damn, either this toad-eater has crooked hands, or museum cards are taken so often in the Orangerie, but while he was stamping, the date could be read as May 228th. Then he finds a free place and puts May 26.2010. The second card is stamped perfectly. We go into the Orangerie - there is nothing special to look at. The most famous is Monet's Water Lilies. Photo on the background. We go down to the basement, find the most crazy (from my point of view) works and want a photo against their background. Suitable woman - no. With the work of Monet you can, with nonsense you can’t. If you are not an art historian, then 30-40 minutes at the Orangerie for the eyes. We leave, across the bridge to the Bourbon Palace.


We go around it - a tractor is working from the back. There are 2 men and a bunch of photographers near the tractor. Probably their farmers are protesting again. Weather - sometimes it rains for a short time. We go to the Alexander 3 bridge - do not forget to take pictures. Next is the House of the Invalides. But today only the cathedral with the tomb of Napoleon is of interest. Why - I will explain in the 7th day. At the entrance, a black woman (I have no political correctness) puts a stamp in each museum card. We inspect the cathedral and drive to the Rodin Museum - also not mandatory, but time allows. At the entrance, some meticulous Sri Lankan Hindu digs to the map where you can read May 228 and says that the type is invalid. I show the second one, where May 26 is clearly visible, I show that the serial numbers differ by 1 - the passage is open. This was the first and last adventure with dates - no one else looked very carefully.

I think a museum card with a corrected date would have worked in most other places. But on the other hand, my conscience is clear - I did not throw Parisian museums for 16 euros. We start our tour of the Rodin Museum from the garden, but then it starts to rain heavily, and we go inside. The people were stuffed - stuffiness. While the rain is pouring, we examine the sculptures inside the mansion. After the rain, we finish the garden. The impression is twofold. Garden - yes, a mansion for an amateur. Moreover, you will see Rodin in Orsay. We return to Concorde Square. Along the way, you come across the Cathedral of St. Clotilde, further through the Tuileries Garden to the Louvre. Today Wed and the Louvre are open until 22:00. The queue is purely symbolic, so we go through the entrance under the pyramid. There are other entrances to the Louvre, but they are best used when there is a long queue. Today we decide to walk along the Denon Wing.

Near the "Mona Lisa" crowd, dominated, right, the Chinese.

In the same room opposite the monk hangs "Marriage in Cannes" ...Not everyone has a living space larger than this picture. But this picture has a few, and the monk has a crowd. Great job - promotion.

And further. M. b. someone can explain to me why the paintings of Raphael, Titian can be safely approached and they are not protected by anything, and the Mona Lisa is fenced and under glass. Artificial excitement?

During the inspection of the wing, an SMS is received from the group leader with the time, the meeting point of the group and an offer to join after the Louvre. A trifle, but nice. Today there are no plans after the Louvre, so we decide to go to the hotel with the group. All visited museums on day 5 were included in the museum card.


Day 6 Breakfast is not continental, but quite normal. The group today has a bus around the city and a pedestrian in the Latin Quarter. Our plans again differ from the group. They offer to take the bus to the center, but we go to the center by metro. Buys a carne (11.60) and at 9:00 we get into the car.

In 20 minutes we are at the station. Site. At 9:30, I took a turn at the towers of Notre Dame - I was 18th. Towers are included in the music map. My wife went to look at the cathedral, I was already there. I'm sitting, a man comes up and offers copies of eif. towers at the price of 5 pieces for 1. Bargain - do not feed bread. I say, let's 10 pieces for 1. Bargaining does not work - the man agrees. Some Italians are standing behind me - they ask me again - I understand only one oiro? I nod my head. Another 5 people buy 10 pieces for 1 euro. I tell the seller - where is my commission. Wants to remove 1 turret from the bundle in the form of a commission. I stop him and say - a joke. The wife comes back and freaks out - why do we need so many turrets. Rise, photo, descent. Both liked it. Then we drive to the Sainte-Chapelle. To speed up the process of getting to the Sainte-Chapelle, you need to go to the line that stands at the Palace of Justice. From the central fence - this is a distant queue. The line to the Palace of Justice moves quickly, but to the Sainte-Chapelle does not move.

We are already ready to pass the metal detector and then one guard comes out and speaks in English for those who are in the other line, that something has broken and they will not let the line in Sainte-Chapelle pass for 2 hours. To do the Slav - right, would be in another (moving) queue. These started whistling. This metal detector triggered on my Nokia - I took it out and put it on tape. More than their detectors of such liberties did not allow themselves. We examined the Sainte-Chapelle, went to the Palace of Justice, looked at the Concierge along the way. It all took about 1 hour.

Further across the new bridge to the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, then the Church of Saint-Sulpice and exit to the Luxembourg Gardens. We are going to have a bite to eat in some eatery where pancakes are fried (or how are they with toads? ). I order 3 pieces (9.60s), I poke money. The seller asks something, but I don’t understand what in French. The wife is standing next to him.


After the Vosges, we return to the embankment and walk along to the city hall of Paris. Near the city hall we encounter our group. They are waiting for the bus. According to information from the head, the Louvre is on strike today - they demand a reduction in the retirement age. We continue our movement in the direction of the Pompidou Center. We go around the center, it starts to drizzle, which turns into a downpour. The umbrella doesn't help. We hide under some kind of visor and we are not alone. Wind and rain - the visor does not save. On the corner is the Flanch restaurant. It's time to refresh yourself. A short dash and we go down the stairs. The names of dishes with prices hang - you poke your finger and they put you on a plate. Salads, cakes, drink - you take it yourself. Garnish - at the checkout, take as much as you like. Of the side dishes were: rice, pasta, mashed potatoes, french fries, some balls (maybe potato), beans and green peas. They took it on 19.8e - they ate until the state of the cake was superfluous.

People went to this institution briskly, a crowd of children filled up. What started near the side dishes! ! ! Good thing we went in during the rain. The rain is over. We leave, bypass the Pompidou (center on the right). On the corner there is a shop with a large selection of wines. I take 3 bottles of red - 2.4 and 7. All - 13.51. I suggest that my wife finish the walk for today. In response, figs to you - an Indian hut - lead on Susanin. The walk continues - I have 3 bottles of wine in the bag. We go to the Cathedral of Saint Eustache. Along the way, we pass an interesting fountain in the square, near the Cathedral of Saint Eustache lies a human hand and head. Only big and stone ones. sculpture, however. And the weather is getting better again. We leave on the embankment of the Seine, cross the Seine to the Institute of France and move to Orsay. May 27, Thu, Orsay is open until 21:45. At the entrance there is a line of 150-200 people, we go to another entrance and show museum maps. They show that you need to go around and go from the back side. There is also a queue, but 20 people.

Everything is fine, but 3 bottles of wine in a bag confuse me. Let's go for inspection. Inspecting in bewilderment, apparently no one has come to them yet to join the art of impressionism. Mumbling something over the radio. A puffy Afro-French woman (he barely wrote such a name) appears from around the corner and leads me by the hand to the storage room. Things are also taken by a large Afro-Frenchman. He takes the bag and asks - wine or water. The answer is wine. The Negro answered - wine it is good.

Orsay - after the Louvre, it's like a stall after a supermarket. You can choose to view something, but not enough. For some reason, most women in Orsay are rapidly moving away from the famous Courbet painting. In general, one evening was enough for us to explore Orsay. We dined without wine at the Chez Clement restaurant. Good and relatively inexpensive. We decided without wine, because I took wine to drink and compare, and not to wear it in a bag. The hotel drank the most expensive bottle bought. That's when the glasses from the room came in handy.


Today the whole group is going to Normandy. Asked later - liked it. We want to visit Fontainebleau, because the group did not get enough for the elective at Fontainebleau. I ask the leader of the group the time of tomorrow's departure to Brussels. Answers that approximately at 18:00. But SMS will tell you more accurately.

Versailles and Fontainebleau are often compared. I believe that if you compare some tourist sites, then the compared sites should be visited in one trip, and not in several years.

The weather that day was excellent - sunny all day. Before Fontainebleau, a visit to Montmartre is a must. We go to Anvers station, and then legs up the stairs. There are few people, probably blacks and "bohemians" for the most part are sleeping. Sacré Coeur Basilica, Dalida Square, statue of a man passing through walls, wall of love, Moulin Rouge. All. We're going to the Gare de Lyon. We buy round-trip tickets - a one-way ticket 7.9e.

In appearance, they do not differ - they all say Paris-Fontainebleau. It remains to find a train to Fontainebleau. Near the tracks I see a negro with signs of a station worker. I go up and ask about the train to Fontainebleau. Not just answers, but leads to the right platform. Along the way, he points to a yellow (if I'm not mistaken) box. I pack one ticket. The machine bites off a semicircle in the upper left corner, I repeat the operation with another ticket. There are about 15 people in the carriage. It took 45-50 minutes to go to Fontainebleau. Nobody checked the tickets. We got out of the car and onto the bus. Even if you do not know where, then a small column of people walking in one direction is formed. And all on this bus. There is a bus between the palace and the train station. Route A is one way, B is the other way, but the palace is not the final stop. The fare is 1.7e. Drive 13-15 minutes. The bus passes the palace - the palace on the left, turns and stops immediately after the turn. The museum card is valid.


Further, our path lies in the direction of the eif. towers. The weather is great all day, so there is a queue for the tower, as in a mausoleum with Lenin and Mao. And the filling of the queue is appropriate. The queue says that today the rise is only up to level 2. Due to time constraints, they did not check - they went across the Seine to the other side of Chaillot, partly having a bite to eat on the way. We took a couple of hot dogs with us. The fountains don't work, but that didn't stop us from finishing our hot dogs while lying on the grass. Not far from us lay some aboriginal. He smoked. The wind was blowing in our direction and all the smoke was on us. Either he understood my vicious tirade, or my gaze, but the aborigine got up, walked away, smoked a cigarette and returned to lie on his T-shirt. There is no reason for us to lie down, we go up to the terrace. Good photos from the terrace. Negroes constantly offer to buy something from them. We have to the Arc de Triomphe. Before climbing the arch, photo on the dividing strip.

There is no sequence here - whoever got up first gets the slippers. On the underground passage to the arch. There was some kind of event near the fire - they fenced it off with a fence. The ascent to the arch is the most difficult of those that we have already done. The wife rises and falls on the bench to catch her breath. She is not alone. A photo with a man on the arch is not very good because of the protective metal palisade. But the views from the arch are still the same. Descent from the arch and further down the Champs Elysees. From the mercy of the Concorde, we go to the Madeleine, Opera, Place Vendô me, the yellow monument to Jeanne Dark and we are again near the Louvre. Today Fri, Louvre until 22:00. In good weather at the end of May, after 21:00, the sun still shines on the camera if you need to take a picture against the backdrop of the Carousel arch.

We examine the Richelieu wing. We don’t drag out too much - we need to catch the boat. We use Vedettes du Pont Neuf - 12th. Departure at 00 and 30 minutes of each hour from the bridge of the same name, i. e. Pont Neuf.

From 8:00 the bus for loading things is open. Guide Andrei personally reminds everyone that the bus will be waiting for tourists near the hotel. At 16:00 departure to Brussels, on the way we will stop by a store so that people can stock up on wine. According to the program, there was supposed to be an elective at Fontainebleau today. But the group did not gather - it was known in advance. Therefore, Fontainebleau was visited on Fri - read above, Versailles was planned on Sat only because of the fountains. We go to the metro and at the box office ask for 2 tickets to Versailles and 2 back. 1 ticket - 2.95e. On this ticket we pass in the subway. For those who are in the tank, we pass the ticket bought for 2.95 through the turnstile and you get access to the subway. We go down to the platform, and, oil painting, a black man lies on the bench and lies begging. He doesn't even bother to assume any crooked posture. We go by metro directly to the desired RER line - line C, switch to RER. We are not afraid, even if you have to go outside - there will be an entrance to the RER right there.


We skip the same ticket and the passage to the RER lines is available. Then your train to Versailles. At the exit from the RER, we again skip the same ticket - the machine releases you. The whole crowd goes in one direction - do not get lost, but if you go first, then after exiting the RER to the right and after 200-300m at the intersection to the left. Near the bars I mark the time - from the hotel 1 hour 15 minutes. You need to plan your time. It's worth the queue. I send my wife to the queue, and myself in search of m. b. another entrance. There is an entrance, but for groups there is a queue. The line in which the wife is moving fast enough. I walk towards her, a man comes up to the queue and starts poking papers. Everyone slows down and takes it - a gap in the queue is formed - 10-15 meters. Immediately wedged into this gap and twitch my wife. In a large family ...do not click. Map entry. On one of the cards, the aunt tried to draw a Latin V, and waved her hand on the second. The palace is crowded.

The narrow-eyed people begin to get it - they interfere with taking pictures. Others at least try to stop if they see you taking pictures. These are not. The word “china” sounds to me with only one well-known English obscenity beginning with the letter f. Impenetrable. You are in his eyes, and he smiles and takes pictures further. But one got me. I catch up with him and with all my 100kg, as they say, body to body. Then I watched him, deliberately paused, but he did not flicker in front of the camera anymore. The Grand Palace was inspected, we go to the park. Because of the fountains on weekends, the park is paid. Ticket price - 8e. As soon as we entered the park, the fountains began to work. Fountains worked from 11:00 to 12:00. Neptune didn't work. An amphitheater of seats has been made near Neptune. There was water in the pool all around, and a man in uniform was wandering on the water. After the end of the work of the fountains, we go to the large and small Trianons - the entrance on the map and, finally, the queen's village. Starts running out of time.

Initially, Versailles and the Arc de Triomphe were planned for Sat, but after the departure time was shifted from 18:00 to 16:00 Tr. the arch was visited on Fri. And now I'm not sure whether we would have had time or not to visit Tr. arch on Sat, if check-out was at 18:00. As they say, what is not done, everything is for the best. From the village of the queen to the exit from Versailles we are moving very quickly. We use another pair of tickets for 2.95. Only first RER, and then on these subway tickets. At 3 minutes to 4, we reach the finish line to our bus and ...we collide with our group, which goes to stock up on wine and food to a store located 200m from the metro, only in the other direction. This guide during the absence of the entire group on Sat (somewhere) found it and compared prices. If they had known, they would have waited near the subway. Most of the group was heavily stocked. A metal carabiner began to unbend on my bag in Brussels - a couple of bottles were transferred to my wife's bag. T. to.

The sightseeing bus and pedestrian tour of the city starts at 8:00. The objects are brought up, the story, the time in the photo. On foot in the center. Local guide Igor tells well. He also reports that "today in Brussels there is an annual 20 km marathon and anyone who pays 20 can participate in it. " They are strange, these Belgians. Yes, I would have been paid 200s - I still would not have run. On the street with restaurants, Igor draws the group's attention to several restaurants with a Russian menu and guaranteed fresh and well-prepared products. One of them is Leon. I ask - did they eat in Paris, is it not one network? Answers yes one, only in Brussels the first. The tour ends near the Atomium. We're going to mini-Europe. We accept a small group of people for the queue. There were many more around the corner. No, it's the Belgians who are having a rest - they are playing with metal balls.


It's 13-15 degrees outside, sometimes it's raining, and these people, looking like a grandmaster (senior master) in chess, are thinking about throwing a metal ball. Yes, it means they have no other problems left. Cashier in mini-Europe found. 13.1e for a ticket per person and a nice girl asks us in what language we want to get a brochure about the park. The answer is in Ukrainian. He apologizes and says that it is not in Ukrainian. I answer that I will complain to the European Commission for the infringement of my rights. As I answer, I see how she begins to change in her face. I say right away that I'm joking and I really like to joke. For each ticket 1 brochure - we take in English and in Russian. The park is not big, but interesting. We start the inspection.

Only a blind man could not notice this trinity of women, but even he would have heard about their appearance. The young park rangers, who were sitting on a hillock and were bored before, began to whistle animatedly - these women climbed everywhere.

They caught up with us near Big Ben. And one of them, well over 30, is trying to get comfortable, but my back is in the way, because I finish the photo already without the wife of this building. They communicate with each other with gestures. I finished and leave, and then the one who will be photographed gives out with a characteristic lingering A - yes, the local paA takes us without words. I could not remain silent and answer - the gestures of savages who do not speak the language are simple and monotonous. And desires are primitive and easily guessed. Silent scene.

Of the objects, I will single out Vesuvius, which is not sustained in the proportion of 1:25. There is a metal platform in front of it, which starts to shake when the corresponding button near the object is pressed.

We leave the park and take the subway. There are no cashiers - only vending machines without English. Little things in your pocket - a euro with a little. Citizens, keep eurochanges at the rate of 2-2.5e per person until the end of the Netherlands. We decide to wait - maybe. someone will use banknotes.


5 minutes - not a single passenger. So you can wait half a day. No turnstiles - we eat without a ticket. We do a transplant. Change in the Belgian metro - it went up to the transition, walked 10m, went down to the next platform, only to other branches. M. b. there are others, but in 2 cases out of 2 we came across just such. We eat at the museum of weapons - m. Shuman. Let's go, there are a lot of people. I ask the guy with the badge where the entrance to the weapons museum is. Shows, but says that today is closed. I ask the reason - the marathon answers. I was a little upset, but I told my wife - let's go and check it out. We arrive, and the museum is open. And admission to the museum is free. Probably because it's royal. And their kings are very different from ours. Separate halls and armored vehicles were closed. But they are closed in a very peculiar way - the STOP sign hangs. "Shurik, but this is not our method" (c) It is not enough for us to close the door tightly, we must also put a guard near this door.

They didn’t become very impudent, but I slightly took advantage of the Belgian prohibitions. In the hall where the heads of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini form a triangle, it is necessary to forcibly lead all those obsessed with the Bolshevik idea and the slogan "Give the USSR". M. b. and enlightenment will begin. The aircraft hangar is definitely worthy of attention. If in the French Army Museum the wife got bored after 20 minutes, then she examined the aircraft hangar with pleasure. If we compare the Belgian and French army museums, then I would prefer the Belgian only because of the hangar.

We leave the museum, the athletes are rewarded on the stage, and we are handed Nivea deodorants. They give it not only to us, but to everyone passing by. Probably a promotion. But why advertise oranges that are poked into our hands 20 meters from Nivea. Yes, ours would go there - they would quickly teach them commerce. You won't be full of oranges - lunch - 29.7e.

I understand when the Germans and Austrians give change to the penny - German pedantry. But when the Belgian climbed for change, the poor fellow had to slow down. It's cold for my wife to walk, she has to go to the hotel to warm herself. In the morning, when we were given a map of the location of the hotel, bus 48 was indicated by transport. Also on the plan was the subway of the South Station, but it was far away on the map. We decide on the metro, because it was not clear where to look for that bus. We go down to the Schuman metro station - the ticket office is open. I buy a ticket for 10 trips for 12.3e. There were also travel cards for the day (4 or 4.5e). I pass this ticket through the machine twice, i. e. for each passenger. There are people behind the vending machine, but I have not seen them check anyone's tickets. We reach the South Station - the map did not deceive. We walk 15 minutes from the metro to the hotel. It is clear that the subway is not suitable for us. Back to the city center, we decide to return by bus 48 - it should go to the stock exchange.


Bus stop from the hotel in 2 blocks - 5min walk. The trick is that the tram and bus stops are combined. And the bus was driving along the tram tracks for some time. But everything is on schedule, so no overlays. When we went to the city center, this bus route ran past all the main attractions of the city. Sharpen a guide to Bruce and a tour on a city bus would be a highlight. I told the guide about this, but Accord uses only local guides for excursions. If we compare our guides with local ones, then this is like comparing a general practitioner with a doctor of a narrow specialization (for a guide - a country or an object).

The historical center of Brussels is not big. Therefore, if you do not have your own museum plans, then after a sightseeing tour of the city, you can safely go to Ghent and Bruges. You have already seen most of the sights of Brussels. We arrived at the Exchange. On the way to the Grand Place we ate Belgian waffles.

The cost of waffles depends on what is put on top of it. We took 2 pieces of different ones - with strawberries and some kind of cream - 11e. There was a jazz festival at the Grand Place. Then, to restore strength, in D

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