Thank goodness for Jake's faithful travel journaling! I start each adventure with the best intentions, this time even bringing some colored pens to sketch with, but I just don't have the discipline he does and, in my defense, I was doing some work via computer on this trip and the internet problems were amazing, so I just didn't have the time. We like to look through our old journals - the ones from our first trip to Europe together for example - and they are worth more than gold, so I do advise keeping one when you travel. The memories will fade but you can jog them back with your writing.
Today, after all the running around and drama of yesterday, we decide to do something we've never done before: take the double decker bus tour! The day is gorgeous and we sit on the top level, plug in the provided ear buds and enjoy being rather coddled :) We've caught the bus at Notre Dame and it's headed to Luxembourg Gardens in the 6th. Like all of Paris it's an area full of history. Like what happens all the time in Paris there is a demonstration of some sort and the bus has to abandon the original route, return to Notre Dame where we hop on another line. We pass the Tour Eiffel, cruise the Champs Elysee, pass the Louvre and Tuileries, Place de la Concorde, Musee d'Orsay, Paris Opera and more..... Lots of sites in a relatively short time and we enjoyed it,
For our last meal we head to Le Petit Pont again and feast on moules and frites - mussels and fries - one of our favorites! Apres we need to pack up and take the #4 metro line to Chatalet and then the #1 to Gare de Lyon, the huge train station. It's an impressive structure built in 1900 for the Paris Exposition. We have a cocktail in the lounge and just enjoy the architecture and,....wait for it,... the people watching! Soon it's "All Aboard" and we find our overnight compartment, get settled in for
a sleeper trip to Rome. Jake will sleep, me not so much....
xo La
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