Tuesday

Notre Dame de Paris

To give Hilary's knee a break we decided to go on the Batobus on the Seine. The Batobus has eight stops and is hop on hop off. So we thought we would just sit there and go around twice. The Seine has high levees around the river – land built up over Roman ruins and serious winter flooding - but the views were much better than we thought and we saw sights at a different angle.

 Well, of course we had to walk to the first point at Notre Dame, then got off at Hôtel de Ville the third point to buy hats as it was so hot, then off at Louvre the fourth point 'cos it was lunch time and we had it in the Tuileries garden. So we only went around once!

The knee got iced.

We love being in an apartment, but the food shopping is fairly constant. We are over 500m from the nearest supermarket and we buy bread from the patisserie and wine is heavy!. We understand why our grandmothers shopped often. We have discovered Picard which is a frozen food store – everything from hot starters through mains to petits fours. Even escargots in garlic butter ready to go!

Notre Dame across the Seine

Working, with a paint roller on a working boat

Tuileries

Tuileries = cafe in the background