Hotel de l'Arcade
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Paris chéri, pour toujours, c'est toi mon amour.
... sur les Champs Élysées (constamment bondés), entre l’Arc de triomphe et la Place de la Concorde.
Voir les boutiques de luxe qui se suivent comme des perles sur un collier.
S'émerveiller comme une enfant devant les vitrines de Noël des Galeries Lafayette (qui valent assurément le bain de foule).
Et des souvenirs patinés de la Ville Lumière, graver pour toujours. "Et c'est Paris je reviens" (Les prénoms de Paris de Jacques Brel).
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O Paris, My Paris
... his life with his sight fading, Monet painted eight canvases of water lillies to hang in a particular space there. Two oval rooms have four massive paintings on their walls, showing Monet's gardens at Giverny at different times of day. You stand there, surrounded by morning, noon, afternoon and evening with the light (only natural light) and display he wanted you to see. It's lovely. My advice for next time: skip the Louvre, go see the L'Orangerie.
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We continue exploring from our Lucy-sur-Yonne base
... Toyota across the stern which passed our house earlier in the week. We watch a very large hotel barge slide into the lock past the swing bridge and through the gates with inches to spare. Murray tries to move the 100 year old swing bridge, and finds it can be moved with one finger.
The parade eventually forms up, somewhat late, does a loop around the roundabout, then back through the port, along the river, over the main bridge and back, giving the traffic ...
Paris :)
... was served a cafeteria style supper at the hostel. I wasn't very fond of what was offered but I had some scalloped potatoes and zucchini followed by some pineapple for dessert. Immediately after supper we got onto a bus to head to a boat cruise. The bus was so nice! It was a Mercedes-Benz with a sun roof-we were only on the bus and everybody was already amazed. The boat cruise was called Bateaux Mouches and it took us on an hour cruise of the canal. It was the ...
Day 1-3 Frogs Legs in Paris
... trapeze artist who hung upside down with just one foot, and a guy on a unicycle who kicked plates and bowls etc from his foot onto his head and balanced them all there, as well as solo singers and dancing. The whole thing was very entertaining and even had some strange stuff like dancing skeletons! Anyway, everyone enjoyed it and after it finished we all headed back to the hotel in the coach. On the way back we had a little bus party where we ...