Trip to Paris by Stephen Mitchell.

 Trip to Paris by Stephen Mitchell.

When my mum told me she had to go to Paris for a business trip and suggested that I go with her, I hava to admit wasn’t that keen on the idea at first. It’s not that I wasn’t interested in going to Paris, but I just didn’t think it would be much fun with a parent! In the end, though, Mum managed to convince that we would have a good time.

We live in London so we didn’t have to fly. We took the Eurostar, which is a high-speed train that takes about two hours to get there, I thought that I might be a bit scared as the train travels through a 50-kilometre-long tunnel underneath the sea between England and France. But as we were travelling when it was already dark. I didn’t even realise that we were in the tunnel we were almost out of it.

Once we were in Paris, and apart from a couple of meetings on the first day, Mum was free the rest of the time. We did lots of sightseeing, including going to the Louvre Museum to see Leonardo da Vinci’s painting called the Mona Lisa. I’m not usually a big fan of art galleries, but Mum persuaded me to go, and it wasn’t as boring as I thought it was going to be. It was actually quite exciting to see such a famous painting in real life.

The highlight of the trip was when we visited the Eiffel Tower. This famous monument is 324 metres high and has three floors, which you get to by lift, or you can walk up 669 steps to get the first two floors! I wanted to go up to the top floor, but Mum refused. She’s afraid of heights, and said she couldn’t mange anything higher than the second floor. I was a bit disappointed – a friend had been all the way to the top and he’d told me that the view was amazing – but I tried not to show Mum that I minded. In any case, the view from the second floor was pretty spectacular.