Paris, France
Another day, another attempt not to walk all that far failed. Late last night on the home stretch my knee finally gave out on me, plus Liz's feet are killing her (she's wearing boots she hasn't really warn since
last Europe trip) so we didn't make it all that far actually.
After another great hotel breakfast, we set out on the Lonely Planet Paris "Left Bank Bookworming" walking tour. This started at Cardinal Lemoine Metro and wound its way past the huge Panthéon, via Jardin du Luxembourg (where we detoured for a rest in the nice sunny weather), then north back to the Seine where we looked into
Shakespeare and Company English language bookstore for things to buy. Rather expensive unfortunately, but we did spend an hour or so most enjoyably wandering through the impressive and sometimes ancient collection.
Back to a little heavily touristed but actually very cheap and impressive bistro for lunch, where I had Terrine (paté) and Liz a rather chunky onion soup as starters. Along with the chicken mains and cremé caramel / cheese desserts, we washed the lot down with a half-bottle of red.
Eventually convincing ourselves to start wandering again, we detoured north to Notre Dame and place Dauphine (where our hotel we stayed in last time was), before rejoining the tour heading south once again.
Despite passing some interesting old churches and literary highlights (places where famous authors slept, ate, wrote about, etc.), we didn't really have the heart or the bodies for it so we jumped off the tour at St Sulpice and caught the Metro back to the hotel, stopping briefly to stock up for a cheap in-room dinner at the supermarket.