Alright, so I’ve been back from Paris almost a week now. Sadly I’ve been rammed with work playing catchup from my absence. I’m actually still working, but photoshop is preoccupied… so I figure I’d have time to post something quickly.
Now, my intention was to post everyday and show some pictures. For technology reasons, that didn’t happen… short version, I should have brought my laptop, but I digress.

So here’s the breakdown of what we saw while on vacation in Paris.
Day 1 (Saturday): The outside of the Louvre, a very cool indoor-ish plazas (?), our neighbourhood and our pillows.
Day 2 (Sunday): Was pretty casual and we went to La Place Bastille (Bastille Square), where we visited a open-air market and a elevated urban park called la Coulée Verte. We took a tour of Paris atop a big red double decker bus… we froze a bit… but it was quite nice. Then we explored the area around le Grand-Palais (The Big Palace), crossed le Pont Alexandre III (the Alexandre III bridge) and walked to les Invalides (the Invalides) and went and checked out Napoleon’s tomb.
Day 3 (Monday): Surprisingly, a lot was closed on Monday. So we ended visiting le Grand Palais again, but this time we got to go inside because it was the public preview before a cross France rally… so it was a morning of incredible architecture and sport cars. Bliss was in affect for sure. From there we moved onto the island known as la Cité and visited la Sainte-Chapelle (the Saint Chapel)
Day 4 (Tuesday): Another sporadic day of adventures. We started off our day at le Musé d’Orsay and saw some impressive art and another example of stunning architecture. Because it was raining we then followed that up with the Panthéon, which I think might have been one of my favourite sites and then a small church behind it called Saint Etienne du Mont.
Day 5 (Wednesday): Was quite the treat as we spend the morning at L’Opéra Garnier (which most people l’Opéra de Paris) which was mind blowing in it’s grandeur. We followed that up with a special showing of a film aimed at tourists called The Paris Story… you’ll have to ask Claire-Lise about that one, I napped. Then because the rain had let up a bit we headed to Trocadéro which is a bit of a square that’s bookended by two huge museums that are on one side of the Seine and walked down it across a bridge to the Eiffel tower. We then capped off the night with a Seine river tour boat trip… which was very much enjoyable.
Day 6 (Thursday): Had us trekking across Paris via a really comfortable train ride to a little shack called Versaille. Ummm… yeah. Wow. Then we went and walked around Notre-Dame… it’s bigger than I thought it was.
Day 7 (Friday): Finally we visited Notre Dame… I was really torn on this visit. It was an incredible building. But I think 30 years of hype kinda ruined it for me. I know that’s weird. But I’m not saying I didn’t like it. We then spent the afternoon in the Louvre. Which could have easily been a three month visit… seriously, you get seriously overwhelmed by the world’s largest art museum. Yes I saw the Mona Lisa.
Day 8 (Saturday): We headed off to Montmartre, once there we visited la Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, which was mind-blowing. We then walked through the streets of Montmartre to the Montmartre Cemetery which again was awesome. We then wrapped up our day, and vacation I guess with a visit at the top of la Tour Montparnasse.
That’s a general gist of what sights we visited and I will go into more detail soon with some more impressions and a lot of pictures. However, I did not thread on who and where we hung out, where and what we ate and a bunch of other stuff. I also want to go into the Paris Pass thing we discovered, our neighbourhood and stuff. So I have some writing and content for quite a while.
But after 8 days I’ve decided I very much love Paris, it’s very much a city I enjoyed and we will have to go back since there was about 180 things I didn’t get to see or do that I really wanted to.













