Beautiful Paris

Having managed to negotiate la metro and the Roissybus I got from the airport to where I met Charles, Dina's husband who grew up in France and was to be guide for the next day or so

I had just over 48 hours in Paris and using the brilliant Frommers Guide (the map in the back is fabulous) to Paris managed to see all the important points. The first day we walked about 8.5km from the Eiffel Tower, across Alexandrie Bridge down the Champs-Elysées to Place de la Concorde. Being the 21 June Paris has this huge party with bands playing on every corner. It was awesome.

On Friday I walked over 25 kms making sure I got to see everything, from the Arc de Triomphe, Tuileres Gardens, the Louvre, Pont Neuf, Sacre Coeur in Montmarte, Notre Dame, the left and right bank and the moulin rouge. Basically if you can walk to it I covered it and even managed to take my french guide to some places he hadn't been like the Royal Palais Jardins.

I walked back streets and side streets and have many many photos of doors and architecture!!!!!

Dina and I had promised each other 4 years ago that we would go to Paris so it was fantastic to make it happen. On Sat having been left to my own devices I navigated the Metro and my Frommers map ( I was a wizz by now) I even managed to order breakfast in French in a gorgeous little french cafe and then with my luggage get two metro trains and a bus to the airport.

Then came more than 30 hours to get home with my luggage by alas no time for duty free in Singapore. It was great to get home and sleep horizontal, although the weather change has certainly been different..... It is good to be home but harder to be at work.