Paris, the romantic city

Even though we flew out of Paris two years ago on that trip we never ventured into the city so it was on our itinerary this time to revisit the sights that we had seen many years ago and we weren’t disappointed.

The train from the airport takes about 35 minutes and we alighted at St-Michel Notre Dame - having risen from the bowels of the underground we (and hundreds of others) were standing in front of the sad looking Notre Dame Cathedral 

It will be many years before She is restored to her former beauty 

We were taken aback by the share volume of people in the city, and if the number of people aboard the boats on the Seine are an indication tourism in Paris is thriving

We started the walk from the Notre Dame along the riverbank towards the Eiffel Tower and soaked in all the sights along the way starting with

The Pont Neuf 

and then 

The Louvre

all the time admiring the many house boats and working boats on or tied up on the Seine

as well as the utterly majestic buildings all around us

and finally we got our first glimpse of ET 

and enjoyed lunch on one of the restaurant boats (everyone was on the top deck for lunch & so were we) before continuing on to look up at the majestic ET

and then climbing the stairs to the Place du Trocadero which gives that fantastic view of ET with the lovely grassed area in the background 

though the vista was spoiled by two cranes!

An eventful trip on the Metro took us back to the Notre Dame area where we sat outside a Starbucks and watched “the world go by” while enjoying a coffee (a little white lie there as a request for “top up with hot milk” was interpreted as a request for “soy milk”).

Later it was back down below and on the train back out to the hotel.

A great day!