Walking our legs off

It was a grand plan to do a walking tour of the area in which we are staying. We started out at 9:30 heading for the Luxembourg Gardens just up the road a bit. Gorgeous, spacious, wide paths, great expanse of trees, small exhibition of posters celebrate Chopin's birthday, people sunbathing, strolling, enjoying the sun and the shade, joggers, in allalovely spot.
The walking tour in the guide book then took us to St Sulplice. A big church not far from the gardens which was famous well before the Da Vinci Code and has frescoes by Delacroix. A peaceful, large church with chairs rather pews.

Then the book took us to the completely wrong corner so we thought the cafe we were going to have coffee at had closed but on checking when returned home we found the map had the place marked in the wrong spot. Perhaps tomorrow we can check it out. But we still found a place for a coffee...we are in Paris after all.

Feeling a little revived we then set off for Isle de Louis one of the islands in the middle of the Seine. We walked past the Notre Dame (how blasé!) and continued to stroll to the central street of e island and strolled on down the main street popping into whichever shop took our fancy. They were open this time. Up until about 15 years ago we hadn't had Sunday trading in Melbourne, how quickly one forgets these things and takes it all for granted. I won't digress into othe other things that have changed and we have forgotten about like the bread delivery and the milk delivery by horse and cart!

Lunch was a piece of quiche in a little cafe and a lovely glass of Ginger beer. Much revived again we headed for the shops on Rue de Rivoli and in doing so passed and paused at the gardens in Hotel de Sens... A great photo opportunity. Then we pushed on to the shopping area and success I found a lovely jacket that fills my view of a little something from Paris.

Then more shopping and walking... No more purchases on my part but loads more walking until we arrived back at the apartment exhausted.

A bit of a rest and then out to dinner at a nearby restaurant. Astroll around some different streets in the balmy evening air and home to bed!