Trip across North America and back
We have arrived on the boat. We got up this morning on our last day in Arrondissement 7, packed finally got ready to go out. The workman managed to turn off the water and make lots of noise. Anyway, we got all packed up got on a taxi (Mercedes. S-class) around noon and got to Continue Reading
8 miles of walking today again. We walked along the Seine and as we came back up to street level, the clock on the Musée d’Orsay reminded us of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” book and movie. Actually, I think the Museum may have once been a train station. Here is the clock We then Continue Reading
We took a cab to the Jardin des Plantes and as long as we were there tried to get into the Zoo, but school vacation week being what it is, we failed. We had a lovely lunch at Jardin des Pâtés (get the pun!!) and started walking back. Do not use Apple Maps for walking Continue Reading
Over 6 miles of walk today. We started down along the Seine again and crossed to visit the Place de la Concorde and Tuileries Garden. After a lovely walk in the garden with a few 100,000 of our closest friends, we walked up to a store, Le Jacquard Français, and bought a new tablecloth for Continue Reading
We started today by going to an arranged time of 11 AM at the Museum of Man. When I bought the tickets, they looked fine on my phone, but I learned another lesson of the world of QR codes. If you have something on your phone which you will need to use later, do a Continue Reading
We had a bit of Bonaparte’s Revenge which made us a little slower, but we walked the 3 miles to the Anthropology portion of the National Natural History museum. In the process we had a nice lunch. I had Croque Madame and was interested to find that unlike the Maine delicacy, it had no French Continue Reading
We actually managed to sleep this morning, so we appear to have conquered 5 hours of jet lag. After breakfast, we headed across the street to walk along the Seine. We walk slowly, just as we did on the Camino 8 years ago, but we do get places. I will stack the pictures on the Continue Reading
We arrived at 6 AM Paris time (5 hours different this week; 6 hours next – Thank you Congress for making it so easy). Charles De Gaulle airport is huge and it took quite a while to make it through Border Security. They checked our COVID vaccination cards, and were impressed by three shots! The Continue Reading
Our first week will be at a VRBO apartment near the Eiffel Tower, followed by a Viking Cruise to Normandy. We are all set for tonight’s flight to Paris. We will arrive at 6:10 AM (1:10 to our bodies) and take a taxi to the apartment, where they have promised to let us in early. Continue Reading
Minor corrections: Saturday night we had dinner at the same restaurant we started at the previous Saturday , the Vinateria dell Coll, and had a wonderful late (9:30) dinner, after mostly packing. We got back to the apartment packed up and caught an early Sunday cab to the airport. We then went through immigration, etc, Continue Reading