This is our hotel view from the street. We stayed at a hotel Ibis, a chain. We lucked into it because we were in a panic to find a parking spot and get off the streets with the car (we were dangerous because of our ignorance of the area). So Jake quickly pulled into a parking garage, took a ticket and parked the car. We said, 'ok, we'll just find a hotel on foot." and wouldn't you know it, we came out of the parking garage and discovered that we were parked UNDER a hotel. Luckily they had a room and understood our French. This is what I said... "Bonjour, Je' voudrais un chambre, si vous plait" and the guy behind the counter said, "speak english?" We smiled and said, "YES!" in unison. But he did understand me, he said. Jake probably could have done better but I was anxious to give it a try so I spoke first. There were a few people that spoke English, but not all. And we were anxious to practice our French, anyway. Surprisingly, they understood us and when we didn't understand them, or they didn't understand us...(like one time at dinner that night) we were still able to make it work using motions or a type of charades.