Fortunately, we were now in France long enough to experience a bit of real Paris. The area our hotel was in was called Oberkampf, in central Paris. Paul Eric slept in, whilst I got up and enjoyed the good breakfast downstairs. Initially, we wanted to see some of the famous sites like the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Latin quarter, but we rea...

We have to travel First Class (an extra 100 Euros more!) as there are no Second Class tickets for this train left!  The woman at the desk says we should have booked at least 2 weeks ago! We checked in to our hotel in Marais, wandered around a bit and saw the Republique monument.  Walked into Chanel at Rue Cambon and I bought a gor...