Meridien Montparnasse

... a bus from the Air France Terminal at Charles DeGualle airport into Paris. It dropped us right across the street by the Gare Montparnasse station. Our room wasn’t ready, so we checked our bags and hopped on the Metro and went to the Louvre. There ...

... that our experience was very good.  After a long train ride to the airport to the city, we arrived at the Le Meridian Montparnasse.  We're not impressed.  I expected a small room in Paris, and this room met my expectations.  What ...

... got off we laughed so hard I almost cried. After asking directions from a few helpful people, we finally arrived at Le Meridien Hotel in Montparnasse. Whew! What an adventure. The hotel is quite nice, very modern. We dropped off our luggage, had a chat ...

Howdy Partners,      How are ya'll doing? We are finally in the US, in case anyone was wondering. So this blog is pretty late and I apologize for that. The next few blogs will probably just be pictures just because we are at ...

Had the designer stores on the Champs-Elysses sold new feet, I think we all would have bought a pair. Keith and I decided next time we are bringing a pedometer. We must have walked miles in Paris, not to mention most likely 2000 or more steps. We had a ...

We're home. I'll be finishing the blog over the next couple of days, correcting some typos I see I've made and uploading more pictures. Thanks for reading so far and I'd love to hear your comments. If you don't want to register to comment here, an email ...

Versailles –just the name makes one think of grandeur and pomp and ceremony. Once an old hunting lodge, Louis XIV transformed it into a royal residence, seat of government and a home for French nobility. Another word of advice: If you go to ...

If you ever come to Paris in July, or any other busy month, a word of advice: When you go to Notre Dame, go first thing in the morning and do the towers first. If you wait until you have gone into the cathedral, the line gets pretty long. We ate a quick ...

After getting ourselves together, we headed to the Louvre. What can I say, the Louvre is the Louvre.  It is the museum of all museums in the world.  Since Peemoy and I have different styles of seeing a museum, we decided to split up and meet up ...

The weather in Paris since our arrival has been horrible. It has been about 50 degrees with light showers. Today we went out to the suburbs – Versailles. The train ride took about 40 minutes and after a short walk we arrived at the palatial ...

While we did not do exactly everything we set out to do today, we still had another fun day in Paris.  First, the hotel switched us to a larger room...praise the Lord.  Now we don't have to be on top of each other. After eating breakfast, ...

Bonjour la famille et les amis. Since we're going to be in Paris for 6 days, we decided to take it easy today.  After sleeping in and making travel arrangements for London, we headed out to find a pâtisserie or boulangerie.  We found one down ...