July. The weather has remained hot for all 3 weeks of our stay in Paris. Only the continual breeze through the marina made it all bearable. We have discovered the love of cycling through and around the streets of Paris, and have seen so much more than we would have without them.
Steph arrived from Chichester and we were off…cycling along the right bank to the Tuileries Gardens, up the Champs Elysees, over to Montmartre and Sacre Coeur, The Pompidou Centre, taking in just a little bit of what Paris has to offer.
Max not only gets collared by an artist at Montmartre, but then later by a TV reporter at Notre Dame. Don’t let Max near a hat shop…..the compulsory buying of the ‘beret’ and following…not so good a photo but it was the meeting of the French resistance!!!!! you know
Met up with James and Val from Perth,, another good night.
Claire and Benji arrive for a visit with a new wine dispenser for Max…..and Benji slips into the roll of a Kiwi well!!!
Wok and Sam arrive from NZ for a few weeks, and get shown our bits of Paris.,, cycling, sightseeing and partying. Bill and Min have arrived and are moored next to us.
And then Bastille Day.. We got up early (7am) to watch the mounted The Military Band and the horses leaving the Barracks for the big parade up the Champs Elysees.Iit was so hot, we didn’t feel we could cope going to the parade,so we just waited at the marina for the fly over and then saw some of the procession as it came back through The Bastille.
Thought we would be able to see the fire works at the Eiffel Tower from the river but we were just too far away.
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