Today we left the boat in Paris and arrived at the Hotel Sofitel
de Boutet where we are staying for the next few days. As our room wasn’t ready
yet we took the Metro to visit the Arc de Triomphe. This involved changing
trains and negotiating numerous sets of stairs at Metro stations as, apparently,
the authorities believe that escalators should only be available for travel up
or down but never for both. This was no fun for Sue given her hip replacement
but we managed OK.
The fun started after we got off at the right station for
the Arc de Triomphe and then headed off down what we thought was the Champs Elysees
but which turned out to be the Avenue de la Grande Armee. A happy mistake as we
had banana splits at a neat little café right near the Arc de Triomphe and
enjoyed exploring some of Paris that we had no seen before.
Tomorrow we will visit the Palace of Versailles and the next
day we are off to dinner and the show at the Lido. What are the poor people
doing? J
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