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Day 3
... cloudy day was going to ruin our view of the city, but as we got closer, that sun that teased us this morning again threatened to come out and play. We finally made our way to the "Parc Du Champ Du Mars" we stopped for some happy snaps along with all the other tourists and made our way to the massive steel structure for a view of Paris unlike any other. Buying tickets online was definitely a good decision as we flew by the line of cold and ...
The Lowest and Highest Points of Paris
... from him and kept walking and he left her alone.
Feeling overwhelmed, and having located the hilltop, we crossed to street to find a brasserie (reasonably priced dinner) with a view of the basilica. Hannah had the poulet et frites (aka-roasted chicken and French fries) and Kyle had the steak and fries. Hannah’s chicken was the driest chicken ever!!! We ate and then made our way up the many stairs to the top of the hill.
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Saint Chapelle
After looking through the overpriced options for Paris tours, I decided to just take the metro to Notre Dame Cathedral and start from there.
Paris is not a morning city. Unlike New York City, or pretty much any North American city, where you can get a morning coffee and a snack at 6:30am when the local Starbucks opens, Paris creperies and boulangeries seem to open much later. In any case, I walked two blocks past shuttered stores ...
April in Paris
... second trip to Paris. I bought a painting from him that year and then again on my third visit. I was able to track him down again today, some 17 years after I first met him. Syl picked an excellent painting that he had finished three months earlier (it had just finished drying). I was thrilled to have found him again. He is truly a nice guy. Even though he is French, he is fluent in Spanish, so we had no problem ...
Christmas in Paris
... statue, bridge or square. We got off for a while at the Arc de Triomphe (and imagined Cadel Evans riding on the cobblestones to his victory) then came home using the Metro (almost like a local, I might say!)
We regrouped and added a few layers of thermals to go out on the bus again to see the Christmas lights of the city. We took the soft option and went inside the bus -we are not that brave when it comes ...