Hotel Regina Opera Paris
11 bis rue de Mazagran Paris, Île-de-France, 75010, France
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Paris, France
My first time ever in Paris. What a beautiful city. I did NOT find the people to be rude, even though I heard that from so many people before I traveled.
My flight to Paris was uneventful. I could see the Eiffel Tower from the plane.
After landing, it took about an hour to get to the hotel by taxi. When I got to the hotel and …
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... familiar that it was like stepping into a Monet canvas. The large pond with lily pads and footbridges bound on one side by a resplendent bamboo grove, softly dappling the light and speaking further of the Japanese influence on his art.
We left the gardens still in awe at all we'd seen and made our way home, stopping to pick up some ingredients to make dinner and a delicious bottle of red wine - every now and then I come across a wine I just love - this ...
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... s completely empty, no exhibits or stuff on the walls or anything. So when you're looking at it and walking around, you can really see what it would have looked like 700 years ago. Okay, well, that's not true at all. It wouldn't have looked like that because it would be packed with the 1200 people, servants and cooks and clerks and stuff, who lived and ate and had babies and died there.
So when I arrived, there was a guided tour starting in a few minutes. I'm ...
Viva le Tour!!
... and the banks of the Siene. I actually fell asleep on Tom's shoulder in Notre Dame as we sat and enjoyed the warmth and peaceful atmosphere of this awe-inspiring cathedral. We were amazed by the stained glass windows of Sainte Chappelle, covering 600 square metres in total, which illustrate in great detail, the stories of both Testaments and numerous books of the bible. Sainte Chapelle was a royal chapel purpose built to house Louis IX's collection of ...



