Paris in brief

 A few Paris photos. There is a full album available here.

Unfortunately I came down with a cold the day after we arrived, so I was not feeling the best. And the weather is probably the worst we have ever experienced in April. Friday afternoon was beautifully warm and sunny, we enjoyed sitting by the pond in the centre of the Luxembourg Gardens. Saturday morning was so wet in the Jardin des Plantes that I never took my camera out - and we realised that even for a short visit, two pairs of jeans would have been a good idea!

Mostly we walked and wandered, so here I'm just going to post no more than a dozen of my favourite photos. 

It was raining on Sunday morning when we went up to the Arc de Triomphe. (In the album, you will see a couple of architectural models from when it was first proposed. There is a model of the first suggestion, and then a reproduction of the final version which is much less fussy. We spent the last afternoon, after we had checked out, visiting an exhibition on the restoration of Notre-Dame in the architecture and heritage museum (https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/en). There were some really interesting videos interviewing some of the different craftspeople involved in the restoration. 

Montmartre

The rooster from the cathedral spire

Near le Gare du Nord

the city, seen from Montmartre

façade of the Dior building on the Champs Elysees
 

I loved this octopus on the oceanographic institute, but it was hard to get a good photo

along the Seine

Notre-Dame