8 April 2004 Thursday. We caught the 7:15 am P&O ferry from Dover to Calais, where we lost an hour due to time change. We drove directly to Paris where we fought traffic to the center of the city. We found a perfect parking spot at the lower end of the fountains in front of the Palais de Chaillot, across from the Eifel Tower. We caught the metro to the Louvre, where our goal was the Mona Lisa, which was quickly accomplished. So after 30 minutes in the Louvre, a record but we had been there many times before, we walked across the Place de la Concord, through the Tuileries Gardens, and up the Champs Elysee, where the girls shopped for clothing. Along the way we were accosted by hawkers who wanted to sell the girls
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