It even rains in France – honest it does. And when camping in a forest its also much cooler in the mornings as you are in the shade. Waking up earlier than usual for our day out Ben takes shelter in the food tent.
With the boiling the kettle to add a little warmth inside too.
Having made it to Versailles again we hit our first queue of the day to get our tickets for the RER into central Paris. Good time for the daily pain au chocolate.
And look out the window too.
Arriving at Invalides we walked across the river and had lunch, albeit a bit on the chilly side, in the shadow of Julius Ceasar in the park outside the Louvre.
And before joining our second queue of the day to get in, Jess touched the tip of the pyramid.
Having queued to get inside, and queued again to get my ticket, kids go free, we battle the crowds to see the Mona Lisa. Jess isn’t that impressed. Onwards we go through the Egyption section and I touch the top of a real pyramid – and then get admonished again and again by Jess for touching an exhibit. Sigh. In fact the most exciting thing in there was finding a aircon vent in the floor on a staircase where we could stand and cool down.
Having made it out of the Louvre and walked over to Notre Dame where seeing the queue, a very very long queue, we bypassed it headed via a croissant shop to the Eiffel Tower – where deciding not to queue again to go up Jess fulfilled a life long dream…
OK – so the pirates eye patch is missing – but wearing a beret and eating a croissant will just have to do.
After another queue we get on the Bateaux Mouches for a sightseeing tour from the Seine.
‘One day, one day I will go up there’ dreams Jess as we pass by again.
Chilly here and there the most interesting thing was being stopped by the river police as they were diving off a barge – but looking for what – a bomb, a body, who knows….
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