Watched a sofa descend from a 5th floor apartment window via an outdoor ladder/lift filled with plastic wrapped packages. Impressive. Much easier I suspect that trying to carry it down the inside stairs.
Small grocery store crammed in between neighborhood cafes and apartments manned by 2 white coated grocers. He carefully kept me away from the molded blueberries and even gave me spoons for the yogurt. The 6 francs breakfast was far cheaper than the hotels 25 per person. Probably healthier too.
Mary and Mary arrived for our day of touring - the yellow bus. L Open Tours offers 4 different city tours for around 31 euros, two days for 34. We had taken the red tour around the Eiffel Tower neighborhood yesterday. Not to my surprise, the second time I saw things that must have been taking a day off the first time.
Although it is Hop On Hop Off we didn't do any hopping except in seats. A couple of times we got the primo front-of-the-bus seats. We were forced to change buses a couple of times to get it all done - green, yellow, orange and purple routes. And we did get off for lunch in the Latin Quarter.
Way too much information. We listened to the tour through headphones. Sometimes I could match it up to what I saw and sometimes I couldn't. If we were here for a month though I would now know what I would like to see every day. The museums alone would probably take a year to do if we wanted to do it 'right'.
We got a glimpse of a lot - Rodin's The Thinker placed in the garden outside his museum, Notre Dame, Sacre Couer, Montmarte, Grand Palais, Petit Palaise, Champs Elysee, Maxims, the Pantheon, squeezed through the arches (again) to the Louve, Alexander the Great's bridge etc.
Speaking of, Paris is a city of bridges, many of them foot bridges. but my favorite was the padlock bridge (I don't know it's real name). To symbolize their committment lovers come to this bridge with a padlock, lock it on the bridge, and throw the key into the water. I may have to drag Terry over there.
We finished the day on the 56th floor of Montparnasse enjoying a spectacular view of the city, including the Eiffel Tower light show. The promised sunset did show up this time. Our waiter Oliver, was delightful, and the food excellent. I especially liked the double espresso.
Although I routinely bug Terry about NOT getting the room/balcony facing the Eiffel Tower, last night we could see it's light show reflected in the buildings behind us. It might have been even better, which I would never admit to Terry, since we didn't have to move our tired bodies from their horizontal position to see it.
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