Hotel Left Bank Paris

... a renowned collection of French impressionist painters, the Musée d'Orsay is housed in a beautifully converted railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine. Stirling and Gailen both seem to really enjoy the audio tours in museums, so they both picked ...

We made our last city day in Paris Left Bank Day, since we had spent pretty much the entire trip up to this point on the Right Bank. We started out at the Invalides, where we visited the armor museum and Napoleon's tomb, then continued across the street ...

Found this hotel through Priceline.  I recommend letting William Shatner negotiate your price.  We got this one for $100 a ...

... took a look at the church of St Sulpice before walking on to the Palais de Luxembourg. This is a really nice, and very typically Paris, public park. Catherine de Medici (Queen of France) built the chateau for her old age, and there is a large fountain in ...

... her ring as her partner attached the padlock to the bridge. I think there will be many more this weekend. We walked on the left bank for a while and got caught up in a large party of Polish tourists and struggled to escape. We crossed the road and so did ...

... there I would go often. Students and children under aged 25 have free entry to all the galleries....how wonderful! We departed the Left Bank via Batobus.....also a nice way to travel up and down the Seine. We returned early to our hotel with local grocery ...

... As Falafel was "the best in the world" – completely disagree…I liked my hole in the wall place on the left bank much better. The Invalides is the most underrated building so far. Parisians are not only helpfully but are generally great people. ...

... a quick catch-up chat and a round of Kirs, we headed out to the restaurant where Kim had booked, "La Cigale Récamier", on the Left Bank. She had taken Michelle Obama and the girls there during the Obamas' visit to France in June. (Yes, Kim leads a very ...

... some of the other tourist tuff.  Then onto the Louvre etc.  Then of course there is the Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame and the Left Bank, Monmatre etc.  Don't forget all the food we need to eat along the way. Today is thursday and we have just ...

... were a lot of gypsies though. In front of Notre-Dame, we stood in the center of France. After that we walked through the left bank and into the Latin Quarter. The Latin Quarter was the center of Roman Paris, and is now a place of youthful revelry, ...

... the artist) who was selling them on the footpath. The D'Orsay was very crowded so we kept walking along the left bank to Notre Dame. Magnificent! Beautiful rose windows and vaulted ceilings, dim lights, much more evocative than Westminster Abbey. Caught ...

... place.  The concierges and bell staff and everyone are awesome, and we feel right at home.  We head on down to the Left Bank and Notre Dame via the Metro, which is right outside our front door.  We hang out in front of a beautiful ...

... great bread - a Parisian specialty and Lefte Beer and a very good house wine, a walkabout along the Seine, another fine meal on the Left Bank and then we caught up with sleep missed the night before.  On the 24th we did our usual ON/OFF bus tour ...

... and discover it's free if you have your own computer. As in, d'oh - wish I'd known that earlier. So that's why this blog entry is up. We've got internet. Dinner was at some little cafe on the left bank - again nothing special - then home for the ...

... I went on to Sainte Chapelle, the fabulous stained glass cathedral, Pont Nuef, one of the famous bridges, and crossed over to the Left Bank and the Latin Quarter. I loved this area of narrow, winding streets, old buildings, and lively cafés. I found my ...

... them - I felt scared coming down and knew I just wanted to leave. the 11th which we nearly did not visit since it was situated on the Left Bank and meant for sure I could not walk to work, was on the 9th floor with a view to match. Only a 35 sq m ...

... set in hopes of living like the Parisians by night.  Paris has something for everyone, between the classy and chic Left Bank, the bohemian Marais, and the progressive and trendy Montmartre. Naturally, we wanted our nightlife experiences to mirror the ...

... can try to eliminate any severe jet lag.  So far so good! After moving into our rooms, we left the hotel for a stroll around our neighborhood on the left bank, and ended our walk at Laduree, a very popular tea and pastry shop, for a late lunch.  ...

... , tomatoes, and creme fraiche in it. It was so delicious--just perfect!     Soon after this I walked over to the left bank and went for a stroll. The way I came to describe Paris is that it is a very gracious and elegant ...

... next day we again took the tour busses from near Notre Dame and through the Bastille area, then changed to a bus through Montparnesse (left bank). Walked a lot and got to the Louvre with under 3 hours opening time left but we covered most of it - nearly ...