Paris continued...

We were lucky to find two excellent sources of take-home food very near to our apartment: an indoor market-come-foodcourt and a wonderful boulangerie. So every evening we stopped off at one or the other and then had an enjoyable meal in the comfort of our own diningroom.

During Friday's meal we realised that we were not going to be in Paris long enough to see even half of the things we wanted to; drastic action was required. Consequently, Peter, Jamie and Natasha spent Friday and Saturday nights visiting famous Parisian landmarks:

l'Arc de Triomphe;

 

 la Grande Arche;

 

Sacré Coeur;

and l'Opéra Bastille.

On Saturday we did the Louvre...

and Notre Dame.

We spent most of Sunday at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (which is like Science Alive in Christchurch, but ten times bigger) and then squeezed in  Beaubourg on the way home.

No night-time excursions that night, except to Boulevard St-Germain for crêpes and around the corner to the laundrymat, then a reasonably early night in preparation for the TGV to Lyons first thing Monday morning.

We've had a pretty good time in Paris. The metros, the shops, the food, the snow, the  museums, the monuments, the  men who try to chat up Natasha, the beggars, the buskers, the uninformative information desk attendants... Thay've all added up to a memorable experience for each of us.