Paris, this city of love...

Well, such an exciting day out today.  Too many sites to see and take in and to try and capture it in a blog will not do anything justice.

So tonights blog is going to be merely a brief outline of what we experienced today.  We caught the metro to the Eiffel Tower and then caught a hop on hop off bus.

The Eiffel Tower - Amazing

Musée du Louvre - Mind blowing.  The sheer size of the place is absolutely indescribable, not to mention the pieces it houses.  That in itself needed a WHOLE day.  We saw pieces we've only heard about in song, seen on t.v. or in books.

My highlight of this place was the Monna Lisa, 2nd would of been the Ancient Egypt exhibition.  Just amazing.

Then we caught the hop on, hop off bus to see what the rest of Paris had to offer,  The Pantheon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (something we will take a look through in a couple of days) Avenue des Champs-Élysées (which is 73m wide and 1880m long and houses some of the big names in such things as perfumes and fashion) and then the Arc de triomphe del l'Étoile which has at least 15 entrances and exits from it.  

We also passed places such as the square where Marie Antoinette was decapitated and the hotel where HRH Princess Dianna and Dodi al Fayad shared their final meal.

I also learnt that Paris receives 26, 000, 000 tourists a year.  You could of fooled me you know because, the Champs-Élysées looked like it had 26,000,000 alone walking down either side.

Then there must have been another 26,000,000 near the Eiffel tower and checking out the Christmas Markets across the road.

All in all, travel within Paris is easy, just use the metro.  Hop on, hop off bus - Highly recommended.  This trip has reminded me of our trip to Belgium and Rome this year.  Belgium and Germany were very similar.  Country side, clean, would even consider living there.  Paris and Rome are also similar, high tourist areas, so many beggars and hagglers and not as clean as the other two, but both definitely worth putting on your bucket list.

Well that's me for the night.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be spent at Disneyland before we return to the city for our final night in Paris and then on to the sandpit.

But for now it's bonne nuit from Paris.