After, what seemed like a flight that took forever, we arrived in Paris on Wednesday and quickly settled into the apartment at Rue22 Jean Nicot where we have stayed several times before. It is only about a kilometre for the Eiffel Tower. It was raining and cold. As we know the area we did a quick shop for the essentials, found a favourite coffee shop and by 5.30 as darkness was coming over we were ready for an early tea and an early night.
The night seemed to go on forever as daylight didn't happen until 8.30am. It was still overcast and showering. We had a quiet day just wandering around the neighbourhood shops on Thursday.
Yesterday we caught the Metro up to the big department stores, Printemps and Galleries Lafayette to have a look at the Christmas decorations which are just beautiful. There are lights everywhere and because the days are so short they seem to shine all day. It was too wet to do much else but wander the shops.
Saturday. Today was fine, the sun shone weakly and we walked up to St. Germain Markets and then around the streets looking at various places of interest. We had been to see 'Midnight in Paris' a few weeks ago and much of the filming was in this area but it all looks so different in reality. We had a great lunch in a cafe. The waiter kept telling us the fish was 'twit' however we finally worked out it was trout. Yum. Thankfully Ian was happy to catch the metro back to our side of town. I'd walked enough streets for the day.
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