DATE: Wednesday 2 August, 1995

PLACE: Paris

WEATHER: Hot

Paris by Bus The Eiffel Tower Rose window inside Notre Dame Paris from the bus Window in Notre Dame Stone buildings - Notre Dame? The Eiffel Tower through the trees From the bus? The Seine and Quai d'Orsay Paris from the Tower Arc de Triomphe Stone Buildings Bridge with gold statuary To (or from) the Orangerie Garden by the Eiffel Tower Notre Dame - covered by scaffolding View from the Eiffel Tower Bryan, Jayne, Charlotte, Sarah walking to the Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe

REMARKS: We aren't brave enough to take on the Metro (yet) so we walk to the Eiffel Tower (in the heat!). Impressive monumental buildings en-route, many not known to us.

We only go as high as Level 2, but the view of nearby Paris is impressive (the smog and haze severely limits the distance we can see). We brunch on the Tower.

A Parisbus Tour is the next item; as in London it is 'hop on, hop off', and our ticket is valid for two days.

We leave it at Notre Dame, which is dark but impressively tall (and swathed in scaffolding). Wonderful stone carvings and luminescent stained glass windows of blue and violet/purple.

We re-join the tour as far as the Arc de Triomphe, where the Tourism Office is wonderfully cool and gives advice on how to get to Versailles and the airport.

The Louvre was to be the evening event but at 1730 there is still a daunting queue in hot sunlight. We pass on it.

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