Paris agrees with me too well. Although I have to admit that eating starch free for the span of a long weekend is impossible here. All the food and all the ice cream. I guess you get the picture.
Now, I am not much of a planer myself. “Jaha, we’re going to Paris? Cool! I book a flight.” So having a friend – who is happy to ‘abandon’ her children and husband for a long weekend – that likes to plan such trips in minute detail is not such a bad idea.
Thanks to the Hôtel De l’Arcade and their very friendly staff, we had a proper place to stay. I also have an aversion to underground public transport. You don’t see anything, right? Proper shoes, perfect weather (light breeze, fluffy clouds and 31°C) make for fantastic days. As you can see above and below.
If you then – more on purpose than by chance – find a Häagen-Dazs ice cream shop, the world tends to look pretty sunny. Between Thursday 11am and Saturday 23pm we collected 91’344 steps.
So; what did we do?
- Champs-Élysées (and all the stops)
- Louvre
- Musée Rodin
- Jardin de Luxembourg
- Tour Eiffel
- Seine (no not swimming, just leisurely walking on the left bank)
- Sacre Coeur
- Montmartre
- Arc de Triomphe
- Les Invalides
And loads of good food. I’ll try and add a map later on (if I don’t forget.)
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the sisu spirit 