We started the day by booking a time to go up the Notre Dame towers. Fortunately staying a 15min walk away had given is the opportunity to walk past this several times to try and get an understanding of how the ticketing worked. There was no skip the line option and only 2 ways to schedule a visit (without getting a tour guide)- either online or onsite to book a time, and bookings could only be made for ghe current day. We'd checked both the onsite and online boo...

We booked a private 2 hour walking tour for our second day, and met our guide Liv outside Notre Dame. She told us a bit about its history and pointed out some interesting details - including the statue of decapitated St Denis, holding his head in his hands to our amusement and the gargoyles on top which we are planning to get a close up look at when we go up the towers tomorrow.We headed off to the other side of the river and took in some sites like the Shakespe...

A day of travel (3 trains & a total of 7 hours in trazit) had us arriving in Paris just after 5:30pm. After our not so great experience at the train station in Milan we had brushed brushed up on our knowledge of the Paris Metro by watching a few "how to videos" so we felt fairly well prepared. We'd had two Metro to catch (as a station change was required), and we were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves with buying tickets and making a successful change. Al...