Walk the Sights in Paris while Freezing your Extremities Off!
A Eurostar departure of 830am allowed us to reach Paris by 1130 Parisian time. After a quick metro trip, we hopped out in front of Notre Dame. My last time in Paris was over ten years ago and was spring time. Winter didn't seem to do the beautiful architecture the same justice, but was all still lovely just the same. Most things were still decorated for Xmas, including all the random fountains with ice. Each had these wire boubble sculptures hovering over them filled with round ornaments in Disneyland colours: hot pinks, grass greens, silvers, etc.
A Eurostar departure of 830am allowed us to reach Paris by 1130 Parisian time. After a quick metro trip, we hopped out in front of Notre Dame. My last time in Paris was over ten years ago and was spring time. Winter didn't seem to do the beautiful architecture the same justice, but was all still lovely just the same. Most things were still decorated for Xmas, including all the random fountains with ice. Each had these wire boubble sculptures hovering over them filled with round ornaments in Disneyland colours: hot pinks, grass greens, silvers, etc.
Notre Dame was crowded with tourists who queued across the square, past the decorated 20 foot Xmas tree to get into the church for a look. As we only had a day and aspirations that the Louvre would be open, we pressed on.
We walked along the Seine to get to the Louvre, again populated sparsely by tourists as the snow began to fall. No queue, just a sign listing all of the closures, which included today...bummer.
We continued our walk through the park toward Champs Elysee, walked down Champs toward the Arc d'Triomphe. Then walked to the Eiffel Tower.
By then we were freezing and tried to ignite our poor suffering bodies in a local cafe for a couple hours before heading back early to the train station where we would hop the Eurostar back to London. Glad we did it, but next time would prefer the other three seasons to do it in....note to self.
