After walking such a long way yesterday, we have realised you can't really walk to everything in Paris, even if you stay really central. So we decided to buy tickets for a hop on hop of bus tour of Paris. It's well worth saving your legs (even if it cost us 100 euros) The bus makes it way down to the Champs Élysées, and all the way up the top to the Arc de Triomphe. Yesterday we were so tired we didn't even go through the tunnel to get a good look, not so toda...

Our first breakfast in Paris, Baguette, butter, fresh fruits and coffee. All bought a few steps away, great way to shop. We decided to walk around and down to the arc de Triomphe today. Walking to the Jardin des Tuileries at the bottom of the Champs Elysee wasn't too bad, only a bit of whinging from the kids. But then we walked the whole Champs Élysées, and back home a different route, sort of following our nose and sort of following a map. beautiful building...

We have to be at the train station at 7.30am to go to Paris, so it's up early to get there. We booked a compartment for this part of the trip, really comfortable to sit and watch the countryside go by. After four hours we change at Cologne, and another three hours to get to Paris, no compartment this time, but still a pretty good trip. We arrive at Paris Nord at about four o'clock, and immediately people ask us if we need help with taxis, they try to get us to ...