Paul and Lynette's Travels: 14th Paris

We were up early again, on the road at 8.00 am for a bus tour of Paris with our local guide. We hit all the highlights, drove around the Arc de' Triomphe down the Champ-Elysées, past the Concorde, the Opera house, the first Palace, the Latin Quarter, Notre Dame, the Louvre, past the Artists Bridge, the Military Hospital, many Chapels finally ending at the Eiffel Tower. The advantage of leaving early was that the traffic had been very light throughout the journey. Went up to the 2nd level for the wonderful view of Paris.
Lynette, Robin and I made our way back down the stairs, Lynette took photos for others while I ask Howard where to meet for the night.
The main group had an optional tour of the Louvre museum. Lynette and I went to Notre Dame, it is celebrating 850 years this year and has a very ugly scaffold stand in front of it. We investigated climbing it but the queue was too long, walked across the bridge to the Latin Quarter for a cup of coffee, then Lynette had a Nutella and Banana Crêpe, while I had a ham, cheese and salad baguette. We made our way to Saint-Michel for a three and one half hour Sandeman's walking tour. We highly recommend this tours, they are run in most big cities.
The tour ended back at the Concorde, we walked down the Champ-Elysées past the Parks, the expensive shops, the Arc de' Triomphe to the Brasserie La Lorraine with enough time to enjoy a wine while watching the world revolve before our Trafalgar family arrived for our farewell dinner. It was a wonderful dinner, the food and conversation. Goodbyes were said to Howard and Eugenio, birthday celebrations for Maureen and Emma with Robin reciting a poem she had written for the occasion. I had the closest guess for the total kilometers for the trip. My one and only guess was 6,200 it was 6,150 km. Freaked me out.
Then we parted ways, the main group went on the optional boat cruise of the city by night, followed by a city by night drive taking in the lights of the tower for the hourly show.
Mike and Carol, Lynette and myself were driven back to the hotel by Eugenio we had all done the boat trip and lights in the past otherwise we wouldn't have missed it but I had much more mundane plans - pack for work and cuppa before bed.