Left from the newly renovated St Pancras on the Eurostar. What a spectacular building and what a brilliant job they have done in renovating it. It is now only 41/2 hours train travel from Leeds to Paris ( not counting transfer or connection time!) Can you believe it. !! Robbie's flight phobia is really making his carbon footprint look good!
and there you have it, one of the worlds most famous icons!! We stayed within walking distance behind the Eiffel Tower. Being an early Easter- it was still absolutely freezing.
Took in a few sights including Napoleon's resting place, the army museum. VERY big coffin, I say!! They actually went back to St Helen's where he was killed 19 years later, dug him up, and put his 'favourite tunic' on and took him home to rest here in Paris in the 'Armee Museum'.
The equivalent of Cleopatra's needle- The french took one from Egypt too!!
Had to be done- some time in the Louvre- what a fantastic collection which almost succeeds at recording the incredilbe history of man. Another lovely space is the glass roofed rooms, framed by beautiful stone buildings housing the sculptures. There is something really beautiful about seeing so many scultpures enclsoed within a the stone walls and glass framed roof of the louvre- kind of like an orangery for stone! Love orangeries, love the scultpure section of the Louvre!
A trip out of Paris to Versaille which was quickly averted as the cues and crowds were more like a day out at a rock concert rather than a Royal country retreat. Decided to carry on to Charters to see the Cathedral Notre Dame- 13th Century church, quite apt for Easter Sunday.
A view from the old town on Charters Cathedral- Notre Dame.
Climbed the tower too.
