We left Paris at lunchtime, taking a train north to Amiens. While we had been to Amiens before, the main purpose was to attend the ANZAC Day dawn service at the Australian war memorial at Villers Bretonneux (about 20 mins drive out of Amiens). The trip was uneventful other than the antics of a fellow traveler waiting for a train at Gare du Nord train station. I thought initially he was laughing at something funny on his iPad, but the muttering and inane laughing ...

Our ANZAC Day started at 2.30am as the shuttle bus we had booked to take us to the Australian War memorial at Villers Brettoneux was (I thought) to leave Amiens at 3.30am. I had to find a car park reasonably close to where the shuttles left from just outside the railway station. The owner of the Gite (B&B) suggested a place to park and we were able to locate it thanks to a now recharged GPS. I noted that the paid parking was from 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 7pm...

Day 3 in Paris. Still having trouble staying up past 8.30pm at night.... But then we end up waking at 5.30 - 6 am. So it was a leisurely morning having breakfast and writing the blog before heading off to the Louvre. This time the Metro app got us there without any hitches. Thinking that a Monday morning would be less crowded, was a mistake. Thanks to self serve ticket kiosks the queue wasn't too long. While the self serve caper is convenient, there is one major ...

We have now had 2 full days in Paris and the Nurofen tablets have had a hammering. That's what happens when you are not used to walking 4 - 5 klm's a day on hard pavements. On day 1 we went to the Marche des Enfants Rouge which is a food market that has been running continuously since 1615. In English this is translated as market of the red children ... So named because the site (prior to 1615) was an orphanage and the children were dressed in red to identify t...