Day 4 started out with fresh croissants that our hosts had picked up that morning along with coffee and watching the local news (in French of course) in their kitchen. This is the day that I also started drinking black coffee. Can you believe it? I’m telling you, everything tastes better in France!
After our breakfast of buttery croissants, jam, and coffee, they dropped us off at the train station. We could have walked to the train station, but it’s a bit of a hike. And they are retired and insisted that they didn’t mind taking us back and forth each day.
We decided the first order of business in Paris was to see the Eiffel Tower of course. I got myself oriented and we were off. I had downloaded an amazing Paris Metro app on my phone. You find your starting station and your end station and plug them in and it will tell you exactly which route to take and where you need to get off to switch trains/metros. It was awesome!
We wandered around the 7th district just walking. It’s a very pretty district…lots of beautiful streets, just exactly how you would picture Paris in your head.
Then we spotted the Eiffel Tower and took about a hundred pictures. It’s just so beautiful. My friend Nancy said it looks like lace and it totally does.
We walked in the surrounding parks nearby and then found the river and walked along it. I bought a book from the used booksellers along the Seine. We also walked across a few of the bridges.
Then we headed to Notre Dame. We didn’t go inside, we just walked all around it to take pictures. The detail on it is amazing.
Then, we headed back to the 7th District for more walking. We found an adorable street with an adorable cupcake shop, so we stopped of course.
Then we had some wine and some lunch. We just took our time and then started walking around more. We headed back to the Eiffel Tower hoping it would get dark so we could see it light up, but as you can see from the following pictures, this was when we learned that it doesn’t get dark until about 10:30 at night there. It was so weird!! So we sat on a park bench and people watched and talked (it was about 8:30 p.m. when these pictures were taken….crazy!)
So we headed back to the train station to go back to Cormeilles.
Here’s a map of where Paris Central is vs. where we stayed in the suburbs. It wasn’t that far of a train ride…maybe 20 minutes? It looks much farther on the map than it actually was.
The blue dot is Cormeilles, so it was a bit northwest of Paris.
And that was Day 4!
