Hotel Duret Paris

Arrived Paris for a week - staying at the Hotel Duret which was small, conveniently located in the Arc de Triomphe area and about 3 min walk to the Metro. Enjoyed the usual Paris attractions including Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Musee DÓrsay, Pompidou ...

... given a room on the forth floor. Which I think is the top floor. The lift is absolutely, insanely small. The ones at Hotel Duret and Hotel Napoleon were small, but this one is just amazing. They seem to have stuck it into the middle of the stairwell as ...

... it more when I'm not lugging a suitcase. There were no lifts! Or escalators! Just stairs, stairs and more stairs. Made it to the hotel eventually, and gratefully collapsed (after we'd both made it to the room, that is - the lift wasn't big enough for two ...

... proper old gothic sort of cathedral, with amazing stained glass windows. After we'd sat there a while, we came back to the hotel, stopping briefly at a pharmacy to get me a new thing of moisturiser with sunscreen - I've gone all pink again today, despite ...

Slept SO WELL last night. The hotel has black-out curtains, so we had darkness, it was lovely *g* This morning we got up nice and early, battled the shower, discovered I'd left my moisturiser and sunscreen in London (although I'm going to have one more ...

... more trains. So we decided to walk. My feet still haven't forgiven me for that. It was 2am by the time we got back to the hotel, and that was after catching a taxi home (my first trip in a car since the early hours of July 1st, which was a strange thing ...