Back to Paris
This year our France trip will focus on Paris, sort of a reduced-scale version of our first trip in 2013 when we stayed four weeks. This will be a stay…
Odds and Ends
Most of today was spent on the upper deck of a sightseeing bus to give our granddaughter a chance to see the major sights of Paris and decide which ones…
Two Towers
Today we visited the Arc de Triomphe first, then the Eiffel Tower. Sometimes it's good to get an overhead view of a place, and with Notre Dame off limits now,…
Orsay and The Orangerie
The finest collection of Impressionist art in Paris is at the Orsay Museum, across the Seine from the Louvre. It was once a railway station but was converted into a…
Weekend in Paris
Did you miss me yesterday? I was tired. We spent the day poking around MontMartre before having dinner with a friend. When on "pokes around MontMartre", that usually entails a…
Light Workshop, et. al.
Today we headed off the one of the new must-see exhibits in Paris, the Atelier des Lumiéres, or Light Workshop. It's an experience hard to describe, but describing is my…
Versailles and Pantheon
Paris has been hit with a crippling heat wave that is affecting large parts of Europe. All we had in us for the last couple of days was a brief…