Luxembourg Gardens (Jardin du Luxembourg) Paris

15 rue de Vaugirard, Paris , Île-de-France, France - Phone: 33 01 44 54 19 49

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    Day #3 Boxing Day

    Venture out at 1:30 pm. Stop and have omeletes and grill cheese for brunch. Go to Grand Palais and the Luxembourg gardens (awesome gorgeous sunny day) Then head over to the Pantheon and University of Paris. Most things closed and very quite wandered around St. Germain and went into chocolate shop and to hiking skiing shops. End up after wandering a …

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    First day in Paris

    We arrived at CDG just around 8am and boarded an RER train to Les Halles in city centre. We walked down the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe. We took a taxi to the Eiffel Tower and took a nap in the Parc du Champ de Mars under its shadow. We paid someone to take us for a 1 hour drive around to see the big sites and we were dropped off at the …

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    Découvertes au gré de nos promenades

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    Mardi le 30 septembre 2011



    Découvertes au gré de notre
    promenade.



    Bonne première nuit à l'Hôtel
    Marignan.

    Aujourd'hui, nous avons commencé par
    prendre le petit déjeuner à notre hôtel; jus d'orange, chocolat
    chaud, baguette, nutella, fromage Vache qui rit, beurre et salade de
    fruit …

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    A day punctuated by flowers

    After our standard breakfast of a croissant and coffee, the five of us strolled around the Jardin du Luxembourg. With the recent French droughts, the gardens were veritable deserts, with each passing bicycle stirring up new dustclouds. Kids had fun pushing minature sailboats across the fountains - will James someday join them?

    Although we …

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    This one is for you, Papa Jim

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    When we woke up, we already had the day planned. We were going to go to the Luxembourg Gardens, the Musee du Moyen Age, and Musee Rodin. But I did not plan on going to the supermarket when I first woke up. After the market we had a very good homemade breakfast and caught the metro to the Luxembourg Gardens. We walked around for a bit and then we …

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    A Sunday in Paris

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    Since it was Sunday we decided we would check out some of the older churches in the area - and there were many to choose from. We took the Metro over to the 6th arrondissement - one of the many neighborhoods in and around Paris. We located the first church - Saint Sulpice which was pretty amazing. Large fountain out front in the square with …

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    Day 11 - An Ideal Morning

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    We woke up with the intention of getting to the Eiffel tower at 9:30, but by the time we got there it was 11 o'clock, and the line for tickets was two hours long. So we decided to postpone going up the Eiffel Tower until the next day, our last in Paris. We walked to the nearest metro station, and decided to take the commuter train (RER) to our …

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    Paris - Day 1

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    ... out for a jog in our new city. A 3 mile run gets the sweat goin', and allows us to check out the Luxembourg Gardens and a nearby church (can't remember the name at the moment). Gorgeous city. First thoughts after seeing the streets of ...

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    Even hotter

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    ... that it was closed. MAF had to catch the 5 o'clock train home so we thought we could squeeze in a quick visit to Luxembourg gardens. We walked through the heat for two kilometres until we reached a fountain with ice cold water. We dunked our feet ...

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    Part One: Ugly Duckling Syndrome

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    ... we climbed down. We then spent the entire day with Vicki and Arnaud who showed us the inside of Notre Dame, the Luxembourg Gardens, Latin Quarter, the Arc du Triumph, Concorde, Moulin Rouge, and Montmarte. Vicki and Arnaud were amazing tour guides who ...

  • 4

    Last Day in Paris

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    ... It was pretty but little plain looking after all of the gorgeous churches we saw in Italy. We got lunched and then walked to the Luxembourg Gardens to relax and read for a while.      Then we hopped the metro again and went to see ...

  • 5

    There is something about it!

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    ... for lunch and then head to the Latin quarter past the Sorbonne and Pantheon to sit for a while in the Luxembourg gardens (one of my favourite places in Paris).  From here I headed back to the Seine where I decided it was time to get the Metro back ...

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    A love/hate relationship

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    ... full day in Paris was supposed to be our Left Bank day - the day we visited Pierre Heme's famous macaron shop, the Luxembourg Gardens and the Montparnasse Tower, before making our way to the Eiffel Tower. However, we woke up to persistent drizzle and ...

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    The City of Lights, Day 4

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    ... science history, Pasteur's museum was much more impressive) We walked all the way back to the hostel (quite a hike!) and passed the Luxembourg gardens. It was a nice place to stop and sit, but the rain kind of put a downer on the atmosphere. Dinner was ...

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    I Can't Believe We Are in Paris!

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    ... . The rosary windows are really beautiful. I bought a theatre mask in the Marais district and enjoyed walking through the Luxembourg Gardens after lunch. We finished the day near an interesting building that has all of the heating and air conditioning ...

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    "We'll always have Paris."

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    ... Our hotel, a wonderful little hotel with window flower boxes of red geraniums, was located close to the Sorbonne and the Luxembourg Gardens. After freshening up from the train ride, we had time to catch late afternoon rays in the Luxembourg Gardens. ...

  • 10

    Paris

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    ... into another room and we were immediately captivated by the stained glass windows that surrounded the church. We wondered over to Luxembourg Gardens and grabbed some crepes. Hartley and I can't get enough of the crepes. Banana chocolate crepes are ...