Love, love, love your photos – I am arriving in Paris on 4 September and looking at your great photos makes me want to be there right now! Thanks for posting!
Fraussie
August 24th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Hello Sandy, so glad you like them! 4th September is getting very close.
[…] all-time favourite in good weather is in the Tuileries Gardens. I used to imagine it would be expensive and full of tourists. Not so. There are tourists, of […]
[…] Michel and I have just had lunch at Café Diane in the Tuileries Gardens for the first time this year. It was wonderful sitting under the trees on the edge of the duck pond […]
[…] in the streets of Paris, unlike the provinces. We can now see the Louvre on the right and Big Wheel on its left, having moving from its summer spot near the Louvre. As we get closer, we see a lit-up […]
[…] First-time visitors often only come for a few days and want to see a maximum number of sights so it’s important not to spend half the time on the metro, efficient though it may be. Also, the best way to soak up the atmosphere of Paris is on foot. You may need to downscale your sightseeing list. You’ll enjoy the City of Light much more if you leave plenty of time for just wandering around the smaller streets, enjoying the sidewalk cafés and watching the sunset. […]
Love, love, love your photos – I am arriving in Paris on 4 September and looking at your great photos makes me want to be there right now! Thanks for posting!
Hello Sandy, so glad you like them! 4th September is getting very close.
[…] all-time favourite in good weather is in the Tuileries Gardens. I used to imagine it would be expensive and full of tourists. Not so. There are tourists, of […]
[…] Michel and I have just had lunch at Café Diane in the Tuileries Gardens for the first time this year. It was wonderful sitting under the trees on the edge of the duck pond […]
[…] in the streets of Paris, unlike the provinces. We can now see the Louvre on the right and Big Wheel on its left, having moving from its summer spot near the Louvre. As we get closer, we see a lit-up […]
[…] First-time visitors often only come for a few days and want to see a maximum number of sights so it’s important not to spend half the time on the metro, efficient though it may be. Also, the best way to soak up the atmosphere of Paris is on foot. You may need to downscale your sightseeing list. You’ll enjoy the City of Light much more if you leave plenty of time for just wandering around the smaller streets, enjoying the sidewalk cafés and watching the sunset. […]
[…] the Tuileries, there were no sailing boats on the first pond – just the ducks swimming busily around the unfrozen […]
Thanks for that lovely outing! 🙂 I didn’t realise Cafe Marly spilled out into that area..is that only in spring/summer?? Xx Jill
I guess Café Marly gets its chairs out as soon as there’s enough sun!