We booked a couple of tours for today. There was no way I was going to come all the way to France and not see Monet's Gardens. There was a tour that visited Versailles in the morning then the gardens in the afternoon. We had heard from one of our tour guides that Versailles is considered the most lavish and beautiful of all royal palaces in Europe. We spent about three hours walking through the palace then the gardens. Even though it was Autumn and the garde...

Today's task was shopping, so we slept in until nearly 11am! We caught the metro to the Louvre and spent some time in the grounds. Chose not to go through but got some interestings pics in the grounds. We had heard that the Latin quarter was good for shopping, so walked through St Germaine and found our way to Rue Mouffartard. The weather had got cold and rainy so jacket, scarf came out. We were relieved when we finally found it, plus the rain had stopped. ...

Today we went on a three hour Eternal Paris tour in a Citroen C2V. What a great little car! Managed with the roof down for the most part but the temperature plummeted and intermittent fine rain won over. There was I snuggled up in the back with my coat and scarf and two blankets wrapping me up like a cocoon! We certainly got some laughs!! We had a driver named Martin who certainly knew his stuff! He took us all over the place. There is no way we would have ...

We didn't even wake up until about 11 am after our late night. For a busy city it isn't really noisy in the mornings. We decided to catch the metro to get to our afternoon excursion, so after navigating a menu and ending up with quiche and toasties again, we set off. The system is all colour coded which is very helpful. All lines are numbered and known by their end destinations. For instance our stop is the Trocadero but is on the number 9 line named Pont Se...

What a 24 hours!! Last night we were treated to a tour that included a dinner, a river cruise and a Moulin Rouge show. Le 58, which is on the first platform level of the Eiffel Tower, is a reasonably expensive restaurant. As part of the tour we had a set menu of meat terrine, chicken breast with potato and broad beans, followed by a chocolate mousse on a crunch base. A nice white wine, the anticipated basket of crusty bread, and the obligatory abrupt French wa...