Promenade plantee Paris

I highly recommend getting lost while on vacation. I don't mean that in any sort of fancy metaphorical sense. I mean walk somewhere, don’t pay enough attention to your map and wind up somewhere cool on accident.

This trip, I’ve done quite well with getting lost. I stumbled across a superb boys’ choir rehearsing in the …

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Day 10 - Versailles today. Up early to try be there before the gates open. 2 trains from our location. It's pretty easy really. Got to Versailles and watched dozens of people run off towards the palace. Decided I needed a coffee and went to Starbucks. Tip to visitors - don't go to Starbucks. I don't know what the guy did to my espresso but it was …

... la Musique. Fête de la Musique is a yearly celebration on June 21 (solstice) that takes over France. Every city has music playing all night long. In Paris the music is organized by neighborhood. One will have classical, another will have rock, etc... ...

... How time flies when you're having fun!   It was eerie to discover that it was during our Newcastle to Paris flight on Air France it became known that their Rio-Paris flight heading for the same terminal that morning had crashed into the ocean and ...

... more carefully!. The first sight I eventually visited after stumbling  along at the end of the blue metro line was the 'Promenade Plantee' a park built on an old railway line that sits above the city. It is described as 'a haven of tranquility' and ...

... Paris even in Sept.   One of the slightly unusual things we had planned to do while in Paris was to take a stroll along the Promenade Plantee. It is an unused elevated railway line which has been converted into a walkway surrounded by trees. It ...

... , Musee d'Orsay, Louvre, Allee des Cygnes, a flea market, and many more. Ah, and it rained... My favourite spot? The Promenade Plantee, a very green and leafy walkway on top of an old viaduct. And the viaduct now harbours an array of up market design ...

... , having been joined by our friend Tera from San Francisco (a fellow visitor to Antarctica last year), we walked along the Promenade Plantee and then crazily continued on foot to the Pere Lachaise cemetery for some grave-spotting: Jim Morrison, Edith ...

... We were able to get off the beaten track a little and go to a local market and do a walk along the Promenade Plantee - an elevated park which provides views of the surrounding 'quartiers'. Couple of main highlights: The food - after ...

... 's time for bed:  after all that walking, along with being hot, we are rather tired.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a trip to the parc zoologique (zoo), the Bois de Vincennes, the aquarium and the Promenade Plantée, all in ...

... ...I don't know...more train-ish.  Maybe I was just cranky because my feet hurt so much.  We walked the entire promenade, probably about 2.5 miles, and took a lot of pictures along the way.  Once off the promenade, we hopped back onto the ...

The hunt for a charger to revive my camera took me across the Seine and down Avenue Daumesnil, an hour and a half walk from the apartment. Along the way I went past a few stores which I've taken note of to check out when they're open; most places have a ...