Paris!

Well, Paris is definitely a different place in fine weather. I arrived about 9 pm & found my hotel after a few wrong turns. Blessings for daylight savings, I wasn't having to find my way in the dark. No tea making equipment in the room, most European hotels don't bother, but 24hr supply in the lobby.  That's a bonus. I grabbed a cup from the breakfast room & just wander down whenever I want. The lift's a bit jerky though, got to watch I don't spill it. Mustn't separate me from my cups of tea, eh!
Anyway, Tuesday I just wandered around the locality & checked things out. Wednesday I took a bus tour to Versailles, which was v interesting. An amazing place with v formal gardens, massive gardens! You can walk for a mile straight back from the palace & still not  be at the end, I think 3.5 miles around. Well worth a look.
After Versailles, the bus went on to Giverny, Claude Monet's home & gardens. That place is awesome, to be wandering around the same gardens, viewing the same stream & lily ponds that he had planted & painted so often. Definitely the highlight of my day!
Today I joined a walking tour around the outside of Notre Dame Cathedral & environs, that was fun, the guides always have amusing stories to tell. Then another walking tour with a different guide along the Seine seeing more sights. Then I went on a ferry trip on the Seine with a guy from the second walk, an Iranian student studying Civil Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne. Go figure! Amazing the people you meet. After all that I went to an Italian restaurant for tea, had Salade Pavarotti! & got to the hotel at 9.30pm, still daylight.
Life can be fun! Now it's midnight, time for another cup & bed.