Notre Dame to Arc de Triomph

Paris 19th May
The hotel we are in at Paris has the smallest rooms we have ever had. The bed is comfortable and shower is a ripper so it will have to do .
After breakfast we hit the road. The weather was in our favor and first on the list was The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Val was hoping to see Quasimodo but the chances of that were rather slim. As we approached Notre Dame on foot we observed a queue about 500 metres long people waiting to get tickets to climb the towers.
We walked on and in front on the large square there was an even longer queue waiting to go in to the place .
There was something going on for Ascention day and there was a large marquee set up and within there were many people baking cakes and bread sticks also pastries. These were all on sale outside at various stalls.

So after taking a few snaps and looking for and finding a free toilet we moved on toward the Louvre Museum This is a most spectacular area with the glass pyramid in the midst of it all .
The queues here were longer than at the Cathedral so after many photos and a good look around the very crowded exterior we wandered out and toward the Champs Élysées through a very large garden.
We stopped for a bite to eat and had baguettes from a kiosk in the gardens. The lady was very rude and if you wished to eat at her table she charged extra so we ate while sitting on some of the many seats that were available through the park along with many other people enjoying The day. There were people of all walks of life sitting on the seats placed randomly on the foot path as you may not walk on the finely manicured lawns. These were closely scrutinized by Crackers who approved of the way they had been mowed.

The walk up the Champs Élysées is some thing special Crackers was reminiscing about the time he rode up here while wearing the yellow jersey "Actually." Our cameras were clicking at a furious pace as we approached the Arc de triumph this is some thing to behold . The sheer size of it and the mad traffic going at a fast rate on the roundabout that surrounds it is some thing that we will all remember.

We had walked approx 8 km in total and were all feeling the effects so we caught the underground back to the hotel for a beer and nibbles purchased from the local supermarket .
Dinner tonight was a Pizza .
More Paris tomorrow we might get an Eiffel