Hotel Atala Champs Elysees
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All good things come to an end
... wisdom of this spur of the moment decision. Lunch at a great little restaurant in Giverney was followed by a walk through of one of the prettiest home gardens and a beautiful house, faithfully restored to how Monet himself had set it up. Despite the rain it was just so beautiful, one can only imagine how relaxing it would have been in Monet's day. And to think he designed and planted ...
London and heading for Paris
... shops and people, people everywhere.
Quote of the day goes to the 80 year old man who, after Richard had told his wife the table was not available because his family would be coming back, came marching over and said "you don't look like a family man". Rich, ever the quick witted one replied with a straight face that "sometimes it would be nice to not be" which made the wife laugh out loud ...
I've Seen London, I've Seen France
... Fortunately, I’d had the foresight do download a .pdf map of the gargantuan graveyard to my iPod before I got there, so I was able to find most of the folks I was interested in paying my respects to through the maze of tombs. After finding George Melies, the pioneering director portrayed by Sir Ben Kingsley in the movie Hugo, I had to visit Oscar Wilde, if for nothing than to see the resting place of a man who had the last words, “Either ...
Goodbye Paris.... :(
... was no way that we were going to do that. I wanted to go to the Louvre but not that bad. Luckily, we got there with 45 minutes before they opened and there were only about 20 people in line. After we hit up the Starbucks (I know it's very American but it was the closest place), we waited in line for a half hour and we finally made it through the big glass pyramid entrance to the bottom of the museum. We thought we were done with lines until ...
Panthéon, Musée d’Orsay, Eiffel To
... br>
An incredible feat and you can't go to Paris and not see something so iconic. We already knew there were problems with one of the lifts and tickets were limited, and we couldn't face 39 landings of steps to go up so we ate an ice- cream and admired the Eiffel Tower from the bottom. The rubbish everywhere was a detraction.
Because our legs and feet were screaming we flagged going to The Arc de Triomphe which was a wee way away and that ...