Nice, uneventful flight to Paris. Luggage all OK, quick pass thru customs and a cab ride to the hotel by about 2pm. All good. Hotel is about half way between the Trocadéro and the Arc de Triomphe.
We bought a two-day pass on one of the open top double-decker bus lines. Rode down to the Île de la Cité area to visit Notre Dame. Notre Dame is impressive but has no feeling of being a church. The tourists (yeah, that's us) run pretty much free. Loud talking, photo flashes, and very crowded.
We walked over to Sainte-Chapelle and got in line. But about 5 minutes later they closed.
Rode around a bit more on the bus. Got off near Invalides for some pictures and a bit of a walk about. Then back to the hotel.
Alice picked a restaurant out of our "Top 10" guidebook called La Butte Chaillot (annoying flash web page). The desk clerk at our hotel got us reservations. The food was excellent. It's a "baby bistro", kind of a third-tier restaurant for a famous chef in Paris. The same chef's main restaurant would have needed reservations months in advance and would have cost us three times as much.
Trying to get with the Paris schedule, we ate dinner about 9pm. Practically bed time if we had been back home!
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