What a week in Paris with a population of over 13 million and many tourists! The number of people was over-whelming at times. We walked and walked doing well over 20000 steps most days. Occasionally we used the Metro which is a great transport system and easy to use. We got a 4 day museum pass which we put to good use visiting some wonderful places including the Louvre (huge, it would take 9 months to glance at every piece of art there), Musee d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou (the modern art there was so different to everything else we saw), Chateau de Versailles (magnificent gardens), Musee Picasso, Saint-Chapelle (truly beautiful stained glass windows) and the Musee de l'Orangerie (Monet's waterlillies were in 2 big oval shaped rooms). We also climbed the Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe and
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