Paris: Ice-cream and snow: Photos 21 to 31

I had a semi-cunning plan.

Surprise Trace by taking her to Paris for our anniversary.

Well the surprise was a good idea in theory until I mentioned something about taking anniversary photos in Paris about a month before the weekend. At least we had a few minutes of side-aching laughter at my Homer-like ineptitude. Doh.

In the end we had a really really good weekend. After a bit of sleep in on Saturday morning we wandered off to the Louvre, which is simply massive. We struck a nice balance of seeing interesting stuff, but not over-doing it. On leaving the Louvre we emerged from the glass pyramid into swirling snowflakes. This continued for much of the day, but this was kind of cool, and the temperature was not any different to that at home.

After the kms of walking through the Louvre, we headed for an ice-cream place that my mum had recommended. "Berthillon" is apparently very famous, and always has a long line out the door. However, seeing as we were there in the depths of winter, and it was actually snowing, we got a booth inside!

Now, I have tasted a few ice-creams in

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