Grand Hotel Leveque

... the two together for an incredible sandwich.   That was the beginning of eating our way through Paris.  The Grand Hotel Leveque is a Rick Steves recommendation in the value category.  For about $150 a night you get a tiny, clean room ...

Arrived to the Gare du Nord and caught the metro to our hotel, which was The Grand Hotel Leveque. Hotel had a lot of charm, and our room overlooked the street with quaint little shops and cafes. After settling in we went for a walk to the ...

... it myself and I know I have to really swing the latch to get it open. After we got to the hotel which was The Grand Hotel Leveque on Rue Cler Street,  we dropped off our bags because we could not yet get into the room and ate lunch at Le Café La ...

... and bring it to the apartment that we are staying at for the next five days. We stayed for one night at The Grand Hotel Leveque, which is in the Rue Cler neighborhood. That is a nice neighborhood with lots of shops. The neighborhood was recommended by ...

... , into the church of Mary Magdelene where service was taking place, past the beautiful Opera building, past the Grand. And Petit Palaces and back to the hotel to rest our hot feet. We have a reservation for a dinner cruise of the Seine this evening. ...

... light show was going on (it happens every hour after dark for a few minutes.)  The kids were amazed. We arrived at our hotel and were pleasantly surprised that the hotel and our room were better than expected.  We were on the top floor (6th ), ...

... at 10AM. (The ability to buy advance tickets online with reservations is a fairly new feature, and many don't know about it.)  Our hotel was just a couple of blocks from the Champ de Mars so we walked over.  Along the way, we passed a bakery and ...

... that this is my favourite spot in Paris. We looked around the shops and then headed to the Sacre Coeur. We headed back to the hotel to collect our luggage and go to the Gare Du Nord by Taxi to take the Eurostar back to England. On the return trip our ...

... , but left a little for our next visit to Paris. When we had seen enough we walked the few blocks back to our hotel.  I went to the room to finalize our arrangements for a shuttle to the airport while Kip finally had her Starbucks coffee. We wanted ...

... we have seen enough for one day, so it was time to head back.  I was done, but Kip had finally found a Starbucks near our hotel, so she made a stop there while I took a break.  We ended up having dinner again at the Cafe Du Marche where we found ...

... 69 is an east-west route that passes near the Eiffel Tower, Ecole Militaire, rue Cler, Napoleon's Tomb, Louvre, Ile de la Cite, Hotel de Ville, Pompidou, and Bastille.  It is a wonderful, inexpensive way to see the sites from the inside of a bus for ...

... liked it (as I thought they might).  We finished dinner late.  Austin still wanted to try for the Batteaux Mouches so we walked to the Eiffel Tower.  However, it was too late by then so we headed back to the hotel and went to ...

... converted to a restaurant near Giverny. Both tours were on a minibus, which was good as we were picked up directly from the hotel (a bonus when this was Trev’s and my first full day in a non-English speaking country). I loved Giverny. Seeing ...

Today we met up with Dad at the airport. We have a nice hotel! The lift [elevator] is cool. It is like Willy Wonka's glass elevator (except it only goes down and up). Today we went to the Eiffel Tower. It's HUGE! I had some baguette under the tower, but ...

... good, zipped over to paris via train on eurorail st pancras to gare to nord.   All good no problems.  Staying at nice hotel on rue cler near eiffil tower all good.  I think the one that rosa and i stayed at in 1989 is accros the ...

... :) We also decided to make another change of plans.  We had originally thought we would go to the Dampier Peninsular and Cape Leveque, which is 200Km north of Broome.  However, we have re-evaluated our time and because we have a lot left to do, ...

We slept in after having stayed out late the night before.  The kids really wanted to go to Versailles so we headed to the RER station at Invalides and took the next train.  After a short walk from the station, we arrived at the chateau.  ...

We arrived at the Newark Airport at 4:30pm one hour early, which was nice, but that meant we had a long wait in the airport. We saw a flight that departed at 6:15pm and wondered if we could get on that flight, but there were not enough seats and our ...