First full day in Paris

Bonjour, mes amis!

After our first full day in the city of light, we are even more excited for the next two weeks. Today’s highlights included Napoleon’s Tomb at Les Invalides, tasty croissants on the Rue Cler, L’Orangerie museum, Musee d’Orsay and a fantastic dinner at L’Ami Jean.





Our hotel is very conveniently located one block off Rue Cler. Rue Cler is described and recommended in Rick Steves Paris book. So far he is batting 1000 on recommendations including our first night’s fabulous and reasonably priced meal at Café du Marche. The restaurant was loaded with locals, and we ordered the plat du jour. We polished it off with an espresse and walked back to the hotel one block away. We had been flying for what seemed like a day and a half, but we wanted to stay up to get acclimated to the different time zone quickly. Finally we went to sleep around midnight, but not before noticing the blue lit Tour Eiffel out the bedroom and bath windows, tres magnifique!

Transportation from the airport and around town has been very easy since the French have a wonderful public system, easy to use and inexpensive. Tomorrow we are going to the Louvre and Champs Elysees and Hermes.

A tout a l’heure!

Carol et Stefi