With our hotel in La Défense (Paris' business district), we started our with a trip to the nearby Westfield Mall, where I saw an ice cream store that sold Bubbies -- a fond reminder of Hawai`i.
We then took the Metro to the Arc de Triomphe...
... and walked past the Mission Catholique Italienne de Paris which is next to the
Noura Traiteur café
We walked to the
Bateaux Mouche dock on the Seine ...
... and then to the Eiffel Tower. We thought about going to the top, but took one look at the long lines and noped out.
From there we walked to the Hotel des Invalides ...
... then north to the river, where we would see the
Grand Palais,
the obelisk France received in 1829, and a
Thomas Jefferson statue.
We went past the
Mazarine Library ...
... caught sight of Notre Dame and the Palais de Justice,
and then called it a day. After about 7 hours and something like 30,000 steps, we'd seen enough of Paris -- at least for the time being.
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