Au Revoir Geneve, Arrivee Paris

Bonne journée,  

I have taken over the email again.

Well we left Genevea this morning and took a train to Paris.  (Our travel agent managed to grab a bargain for first class).  This time the experience was so much better, they actually gave us snacks and drinks, we had private seats instead of sharing a foursome and there was plenty of room for our luggage.

We are staying in an apartment close to the Eiffel Tower.  Unfortunately they are doing roadworks outside our room, the L Train bridge is directly across the street and there is a McDonald's underneath so the frontage of the hotel was a disappointment.  On the plus side, our room is extremely clean and comfortable with plenty of room for us to spread out, the glass doors block out the roadwork noise during the day and we have a lovely view of the Eiffel Tower from our window.

We have only done a little exploring today.  Priority was to get a map of the city and buy groceries (we have a kitchenette).  Studying our map, it appears the landmarks in Paris are not within close walking distance like in Rome.  We are extremely close to the Tower but that puts us approx. 45 min walk from the Louvre, the Arch de Triomphe and Notre Dame.  With all the walking we have been doing the past week, we are up for the challenge.

Meals won't be a problem though.  Within approx. 200m we have so many restaurants to choose from we won't be eating at the same place twice.  Tonight I had frogs legs and Sean had snails (we have had them before).  The snails were tasty, the frogs legs tasted like chicken.

As I write this email, it is 9.36 pm and it is still bright outside.  I am sitting by our window waiting for the sun to eventually go down so we can see the lights of the Eiffel Tower, not sure when that is going to be so it could be a long wait. The silly thing is I am watching the London news and the "live" news broadcast has the a backdrop of the Eiffel Tower all lit up and I'm sitting here looking out my window wandering what the?
Tomorrow morning we are visiting the Louvre (as part of a tour so we can skip the lines).  Looking forward to seeing the Mona Lisa.  After that it will be more exploring and getting lost no doubt.

Signing off now, still waiting the sun to go down.

Lorraine

Au Revoir

Sean and Lorraine

PS.  Its 10.02 pm the sun is only just setting and the Eiffel Tower is now ablaze with light and sparkling like a diamond.  Yay!!  Short 10 second video in the photo album.

Daily Links
2016-07-19 Au Revoir Geneve, Arrivee Paris
2016-07-18 Geneve
2016-07-17 Train Rome to Geneva
2016-07-16 Shopping Day Redux
2016-07-15 Shopping Day
2016-07-14 Vatican Day
2016-07-13 Vespa Day
2016-07-12.2 Walking Tour
2016-07-12.1 AM Morning Ramble and Lunch
2016-07-11.1 - Ramblings
2016-07-10 BNE-DXB-ITA

Others
2016-07 Euro Holiday (entire collection, includes Lorraine's iPhone photos I have previously missed)
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