OK slight exaggeration. The Champs Elysees only had 7 lanes or so - not that anyone stuck to them.
We have travelled by foot - many hours trying to find key landmarks with maps which don't have a clear sense of scale (perhaps a user error!).
As mentioned earlier, we almost made a trip on a boat. The weather wasn't great and our enthusiasm, after slightly longer on the bus than planned, had waned.
We didn't make it on a bike either - although saw plenty of them, especially when standing in the middle of what looked like the path by the road but was actually a pedestrian crossing across a cycle path - bbrrringg, bbrrringg.
Tomorrow we take a step up and pick up the camper van. Apparently it takes at least 45 minutes to take a 'newby' through the instructions. I reckon I will need 45 minutes just to be shown how to go round a roundabout!!
Today we discovered the metro. Probably 4 days too late. How easy it was to get round town.
We have had a very entertaining and full 5 days in the apartment and have enjoyed living right in the middle of town. Esther did say that she could easily become a Parisienne - Im not convinced, the apartments do not have enough storage space for her lamps, handbags, shoes and clothes, let alone space to live as well.
The highlight of today was tramping round the Louvre (not the tramping bit, but what we saw). Here is a photo of the Skinner family with a relatively well known piece of art. If you look carefully, everyone's eyes are looking towards the camera....
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Alex
I love that you just discovered the metro, I didn't know there was buses and I can't remember how many times I have been to Paris, just always used he metro from the airport and just stayed usng it. Sounds like you have seen heaps, love reading the two blogs. Take care and once out of Paris driving will be easier than nz cos all the sign posts are so easy to follow.
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