Residence Hoteliere Les Ducs De Chevreuse Īle-de-France

... the gypsies and the guys selling cheap souvenirs.

We walked along to the Arc de Triomphe and sat for awhile just watching the crazy traffic going around- there are 12 avenues meeting at this roundabout where there are no lanes or rules (or so it seems). Luckily there is a tunnel under the road for pedestrians to reach the Arch which was started in 1806, commissioned by Napolean as a celebration of the achievements of the ...

... and finally down the Rue de Rivoli and Rue St Antoine back to our hotel.We were exhausted at the end as we must have walked for over 2 hours!! After a rest we found a great restaurant nearby, Les Bonnes Soeurs and had a very nice meal. Today I spent an exciting morning at the Lavomat, washing and drying a load of clothes. Dreary but necessary!! After this we bought our passes for the Metro and took the train to Hotel de Ville. We walked to the Pont Neuf to board a cruise along the ...

... cabs in the hope of a tip. Two of them started fighting each other full on. What an introduction to Paris. Within minutes, four policemen came running out of the station. Quite roughly, they had one of the bums spread eagle on the bonnet of a cab, and then 3 of the policemen had him on the ground, cuffing him, while the fourth went around the crowd that was watching, telling them no photographs. They arrested him, yet the other got ...

... sells produce let us in. Ok, one step closer. But we didn't have the code to get into the building now. Sigh. I pulled out the rented phone and tried calling the owner; the stupid phone didn't work. Agggghhhhhhh! Someone came out the door so we went up to the second floor by squeezing ourselves and our luggage into this teensy elevator. We stepped out and looked around at the doors. Which one? No apartment numbers, even if there were apartment numbers, I wasn't ...

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... we were still on the train at 9.30, when the tour was supposed to start. We all bolted off at the station and it was quite the Benny Hill routine as we all ran in different directions, trying to find the exit. Thankfully the tour waited (we'd finally managed to contact them in the brief moment of mobile reception we'd had in the tunnels) and we were really only about five minutes late, but it was a stressful start to the day. It only got more stressful though when Andrew realised he ...

... across the river past the grand Palais de Chaillot with its large water feature in the forecourt and its impressive twin buildings then up the avenue D'lena to the Arc de Triomphe. We exhaustedly climbed the 300 odd steps to the top and looked over the Paris landscape again and down the Champs Elysees. From the top of the Arc we spotted a McDonalds and the boys got all excited because they were told that Macca sold beer in France. So we made our way ...

... the amount of markers, it helped to put into prespective just how many lost their lives there. The americans had to come ashore,come up the beach and then climb the hilly cliffs to try to overtake the germans on the high land. It was neat to be able to look out over the landscape and imagine how it must have been. Then the tour took us down to the beach and we got to walk out on the beach and look at 2 monuments that were there. Finally the van ...

... coz the pilot said that one of the comms is not working but they are printing data out so flying soon. You can hear murmurs around the cabin that that news isn't inspiring. The plane is a 767 300 and it's UA's new Economy Plus- entertainment screens and '5 inches' more leg room. I measured the space minus the '5 inches' and it was pass my knee cap so... advertising.

... High arches, lots of stained glass, and ornate sculptures. Then I kept wandering and I found La Musee du Moyen Age (Museum of the Middle Ages). It was closed today, because it's closed on Tuesdays, but I walked around the park that's part of its grounds, and that was really cool. Then I walked to Les Jardins Du Luxembourg and saw the fountain and the palace from a distance. I wanted to walk longer but I had to get to ...