Our days in Paris ..Part One.... You have a choice of weather condition...

A nice treat and fabulous architecture....

look forward to your walk in the gardens...

thank you for showing your beautiful captures...

from jane!!!!!!!

Paris is wonderful even when it's raining! I loved all of your pictures and have learned something from your posts. Thank You.

What a great blog and photo's Sue..and lovely to see a different slant on Paris..I really enjoyed it,especially the wonderful Architecture..like you,I love History too..It's somewhere we have never been..but maybe one day..
I hope 'Mona' didn't follow you all the way round..maybe she was admiring your nice top ! Lol...How's the knee? and is this a before or after your op? So glad you and your daughter had a lovely time..wet but warm..could have been worse :o)

fantastic blog ,well enjoyed reading it, very interesting:))))

I've not been to Paris and I must admit your photos even in the rain look tempting, how did you travel was it eurostar?
And was it an organised trip or did you 'do it yourself'

thanks for making it look so fascinating xxx

It's many years since I was last in Paris, your photos helped to rekindle happy memories...perhaps we should go again...So glad you had a good time, even in the rain :)

What fantastic achitecture. Well done on getting a picture of that smile! lol :O)

Thanks for sharing all that 'culture' Sue! Glad you had a good break. Did you go on the BateauBus? It circles the Seine, and you can hop-on and hop-off (8 different stops). It was recommended to me and a friend when we were there a year or two ago, and it was a nice breezy way to see the sights :)

Pleased you enjoyed it, we were there the week before my op, our trip was booked last winter, long time before bad eyes and injured knee, not an organised one, we like to choose our own days out, my girl sorts out all the details and we go armed with a map, very exciting and yes we've been lost many a time but that happens on a regular basis with us and is known as our " scenic routes."..
We went on the Eurostar this time, 4.50am departure, they like you to check in an hour before so had the previous day in London and spent the night in a hotel only 5mins walk from Kingscross,( didn't fancy travelling overnight to London) I admit I was worried about losing my daughter in a crowd but we worked it out, she was very good and kept an eye out for me wherever we went and we prearranged to check in with each other every 15mins in the places we visited, kept our mobiles charged at all times, she has no-one else to go with and although she suggested cancelling, I'm not a taurus for nothing, stubborn as they come and determiuned to not have our holiday spoilt, lol. I do admit that I had to scan through my camera lense a few times to find her but it worked, quite funny really as a couple of times I discovered her watching me and laughing her head off as she knew what I was dong....

Oh dear Steve, I guess its also gone via our scenic route, lol...
Sheila we did see the bus going around and considered it but the weather put us off that idea, No 42 bus is also a very good one to use as it goes lots of places, we buy the passes that cover buses and the metro's and flit about all over the place, lol...

I loved your blog, Sue and as we go to my cousins every now and then, who lives just outside Paris, it was nice to see this part of it . My hubby as I may have mentioned before can't walk very far or stand for long periods of time , so the nearest we got into the centre was Mont Martre, (probably spelt this wrong !) We've been to The Gardens of Versaille and the Monet gardens. I hope you managed to get to at least one of these !

Thank you for these pics - I have only ever spent one evening in Paris in the early 60s, on the way to the south so have only see the outside of Notre Dame and just managed to avoid being picked up by a young man who followed me saying "Toute seule, ma cherie?" And as i was, I hurried away , not being very adventurous! That was a very long time ago... Your photos have really made me want to go and see all the things I missed, so I said as much to OH - who replied - "Oh, I've been"... Thanks a lot!

Did Versailles gardens and the palace six years ago Rose and it was absolutely fabulous..
Stera my hubby flatly refuses to go, which actually helps as we leave him to care for the pets and my g'houses.....

Beautiful photos

Breathtaking and super pictures thanks for the tour very enjoyable;0))

I'm trying to catch up Sue :o)
Well you saw a lot of interesting places. Some of those buildings are fantastic. I don't mind paintings, but I find those marble statues very creepy.
I'm sorry it rained so much for you but I hope you enjoyed your little break.

Hywel it was brilliant in spite of the weather, having the british dogged determination and attitude does help, lol, I love all the buildings, churches, bridges even the streetlamps are decorative around these areas.....

Fantastic blog Lincs, really enjoyed all the history, art and architecture, nearly as good as going myself:-))