Day 102, 14 October 2012, Paris, France. Boy oh Boy! it's everything I've ever imagined, It's quaint and hazy and rainy and monumental and the Louvre seems like the largest building on planet earth. We left the bags at our quaint (that's double speak for small and cheap) hotel in the 20th arrondissement at about 9.30 am. That was after a 1 hour herculean effort on the Paris metro with our massive bags to get here from Gare d'Austerlitz via 3 different changes. Great metro system. Hardly any escalators. No lifts. Beaucoup stairs. Anyway, bags dropped, we trotted back to our local station, Menilmontant (just around the corner from Pere Lachaise cemetery). Headed into St Michel and joined a free walking tour (yes - there is a pattern developing). Sandemans New Europe's New Paris tour, 3 hours, took off at 11 am sharp in pouring rain and wow. Did we walk. Yes indeedy. Quick update of all the places we saw (basically we can see Paris or we can blog about it. Just can't do both.) OK. Here goes. Latin Quarter, Ile de Cite, Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, Palace of Justice, Pont Neuf, the "Lock" Bridge, Walked through the Louvre, Joan of Arc's statue, Napoleon's Egyptian Obelisk (it's mate still sits outside Luxor temple in Egypt... saw that a couple of months back). Napoleon's one had it's tip damaged in transit so a few years back it was gussied up with a nice gold tip. Tres chic. Tullieries Gardens, saw the Arc de Triomphe in the distance and the Eiffel Tower. The Place de Concorde (previously the Place de Revolution where Marie Antoinette lost her head), Church La Madeleine and probably a few other places. Got back to hotel to see our room about 3 pm and had Moroccan for lunch. Explored our neighbourhood in the evening and had Chinese for dinner. Very cosmopolitan the 20th arrondissement. And inexpensive for eats - no more than €12 per sitting for us both. We start using our Paris Pass tomorrow and will be getting every ounce of value out of this prepaid extravaganza (times 2). Bring on the Louvre and Madame Mona Lisa.