Day 4..... Today we left Paris. The care-taking who only speaks French calls us a taxi so we can head into the city to pick up our hire car. That was the easy bit!! Axis car hire closed ring bell after 15mins finally someone arrives. They then tell us our car isn't ready for one hour, we explain we have 6 hours of driving and can't wait. Magically a car is available and we are transferred to another axis hire place. We are given a automatically BMW car. No ...

Day two and after a visit to the glee market got fresh supplies we head off to Centre Paris we are booked on hop on hop off open air bus and we are off to see all the touristy things of Paris. We start of course at the Eiffel Tower and head off to see the Champs de Mars, Opera Garnier, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Musee d'Orsay, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Grand Palais and Trocadero. Unbelievable the age of these buildings and the city in general. Lots of touris...

Day 3.. Monday.... A picture says a thousand words so they say. This of course is the Mona Lisa. We arrive at the Louvre and queue with thousands of others is go inside to see the famous Mona Lisa. The sign where we get on the end of the queue tells us it is 2 hours from here to get inside the Louvre. We look at each other and agree that it is not everyday you get go inside the Louvre to see the famous Mona Lisa, so we decide to deal with the crowds and queue...

So we have arrived in Paris France. Lovely to see a man holding a sign with my name on it, the pre paid transfer worked a sigh of relieve went over us. Off to our accommodation a private residence studio apartment owned by a friend of my brother Martin and sister in law Nhu Nhu. Olide was there to meet which was fantastic because I think we are out of our depth. Quick walk around gave us land marks, the metro, bolangerie patisserie, convenience shop which also ...