Paris

Paris is everything I expected and wanted it to be.  Charming, bustling, steeped in history, art, and exquisite achitecture.  This is our fourth and last day in Paris before leaving by train tomorrow for Bayonne.  We've mastered the Metro, cruised the Seine, visited the Eiffle Tower, the Musee d'Orsay, Notre Dame, Basillique du Sacre Coeur, Montmartre and the Latin Quarter.  We've been to markets to buy French apples and strawberries, cheese, bread and croissants.  There are great little restaurents tucked down laneways where we haved dined on Beef Bourgogne, Confit Duck, whole grilled Sole, delicious pasta, Creme Brouillet, and of course jugs of lovely French red.  Our hotel is great and our room enchanting, very Parisian or at least what I imagine Parisian to be.  The hotel is very close to the metro, the river, restaurants and many attractions.  Although we catch the Metro to places of some distance away, we still manage to walk at least 10 km a day.  Paris is such a lovely city to walk through.

Sacre Coeur