Jack and Catherine caught the RoissyBus from the l'aéroport Charles de Gaulle to the Palais Garnier (Opera House) at Place de l'Opéra. We met them there and walked back to our apartment past Le Printemp and les Galeries Lafayette.
We had a great time. By showing Jack and Catherine a few of the sights of Paris, it gave Geoffrey and I another opportunity to revisit them.
The weather was glorious. We certainly walked a lot but also had a lot of Metro rides.
On Friday afternoon we walked from our apartment to Sacré Coeur past Place de Clichy and the Moulin Rouge.
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| on our way to the funiculaire at Sacré Coeur |
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| Église du Dôme from Sacré Coeur - a gilded dome visible from all over Paris. Napoleon 1 remains are underneath it. |
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| Tour Main-Montparnasse - a skyscraper in the low-rise area of Paris and the Eiffel Tower from Sacré Coeur |
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| Eiffel Tower from Sacré Coeur |
On Saturday morning we walked through Parc Monceau, which is only a few minutes walk from our place and then up to the Arc de Triomphe.
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| A turtle in Monceau Park |
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| Jack, Catherine and me alongside the lake in Monceau Park |
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| once again, the waterfall at Monceau Parc |
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| Arc de Triomphe |
We walked from the Arc de Triomphe down the esplanade Champs-Elysées, past the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais and on to the Pont Alexandre III on the River Seine.
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| Charles de Gaulle outside the Grand Palais |
Behind charles de Gaulle is one of the two 4 horse-drawn chariots that adorn either side of the Grand Palais. They are called the Récipon Quadrigas.
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| Walking towards Pont Alexandre III with Église du Dôme in the background. |
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| A closer view of Pont Alexandre III and Église du Dôme in the background. |
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| Pont Alexandre III in the foreground as we walked along the River to la Place de la Concorde and into Les Jardin des Tuileries |
From Les Jardin des Tuileries we took the metro home from Concorde in time for us to watch Collingwood beat Brisbane.
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| Jack enjoying a well earned pre-lunch Guiness on our balcony. |
That afternoon we caught the metro to Tuileries and back into Les Jardin des Tuileries, through the Arc de Triomphe Carrousel and to Le Louvre. We also showed them around where we lived last year at de la Ferronnerie in the 1st arrondisement. This included where Henry IV was assassinated in our street, la Fontaine des Innocents and la Tour Saint-Jacques and on to la Cathédrale Notre-Dame to the Square Jean XXIII and across the Pont de l'Archevêché on to the Left Bank and a bit of a look at les Bouquinistes and then the Metro home.
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| In the Jardin des Tuileries, Geoffrey playing with his hired yacht - 2 euros for 15 minutes. For Geoffrey this is one of the absolute highlights of living in Paris - being there in the gardens when the yachts are available. There are no set days when the yachts are there. For more photos see blog 1 March 2011. |
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| The cart of yachts for hire. |
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| The fellow who hires out the yachts |
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| Orchestra playing in Square Jean XXIII at the rear of la Cathédrale Notre-Dame. It is just great to live in Paris. |
Jack took us out for dinner on Saturday evening to a very nice French restaurant called Un Air de Famille in the 17 arrondissement, a few minutes walk from where we live.
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| Jack and Catherine greeting us as we returned from le Marché Grenelle. Jack having another well earned Guiness. While we were at the market, they had been to Mass at Ste-Trinité. |
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| Jack eating a snail. It has become rather traditional for visitors to have snails from le Marché Grenelle. |
The Rood screen in Église St Étienne-du-Mont, is the only complete Rood screen left in Paris. The Rood screen was used to separate the elite from the the ordinary people in the 16th Century.
Also, to the side of the church are the steps where Owen Wilson sat as the 1920 Peugot Landaulet, drove up to him - the car used in the Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris. See my blog 2 March 2012.
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| We are in a traditional English Pub the Bombardier where we watched Man City v QPI with the Église St-Etienne-du-Mont in the background. |
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| The farewell dinner. Jack insisted we have champagne. What a treat! |
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| and what a finish! Jack and Catherine put their names on a love padlock. The tradition is that the 'cadenas de l'amour' be attached to the Pont des Arts, a metal pedestrian bridge across the Seine and the key thrown into the River or attached to the Pont de l'Archevêche. |
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