Notre Dame

Paris, France

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Notre Dame

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The streets of Paris

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Paris in three days…is virtually impossible.  We started from the Little Rock airport at 10AM and arrived in Paris at 9AM the following morning.  Time changes and turbulent flights led to NO sleep.  Once in Paris we hit the streets running.  Notre Dame and the Museam de’Orsay were stops along the way.  Seeing works of arts by Monet, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lattrece and many more was a bucket list checker for sure.  30 plus hours and more than 6 miles logged in steps we were quickly draining any energy that the excitement might have produced.  I believe that we could have been given a cardboard box to sleep in and would have slept just as well.

Rejuvenated and refreshed we met for a European breakfast of espresso and croissants.  Boarded the bus and began a city tour of Paris.  So much history and interesting stories to be seen and heard.  After many years of traveling I can finally say that I have seen the Eiffel Tower, and will go up in it later.  Morning bus tour along the Seine and of Ile de la  Cite’, where we saw the Notre Dame Catherdal and passed the Arc de Triomphe,  We traveled down the Champs-Elysses to the Place de la Concorde, dedicated to King Louis XV.  We visited the site where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed during the French Revelotion.