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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Paris

We arrived in Paris greeted by Laurent who we met in Bogota. He put us up for three nights and helped to arrange car parking.
If you ever take a vehicle to Paris you must either have free parking garage with your accommodation or arrange parking with a company. We used Zenpark.
We registered online and used the App to open the park doors.

No room for errors in this parking lot. Probably the tightest I've encountered anywhere.
On our first day we decided to see the Catacombs (old sewer tunnel tour). W
hen we got there the queues were very long so we kept walking and climbed the Eiffel Tower.



We were expecting massive queues but as luck would have it occasionally, there were no cues on the stairs entry side. There were cues on the lift entry side.
The view was spectacular from the first level. From level 2 it was even better. We then cabled upto the top of the Eiffel Tower.  Stunning view. Totally packed with tourists.
Here I am with my new toy.


The following day we got some bikes and cycled through Paris to the old part of the city.

Here we found the very old and very new. Again the place was crawling with tourists. May is considered the low season before summer madness.
We went into the Louve museum which was massive. You need at least 2 full days to see the lot. We were in there for 3 hours. When you start looking at museums they all start to look the same.



View of the River Seine 

We legged it for a late lunch in an Italian restaurant.
Cycling back through Paris was fun using the galaxy as our navigator.

We said goodbye to Laurent on Sunday and headed south out of Paris.


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