France will be remembered for relatives and friends. After arriving in Paris by Eurostar, which didn’t quite live up to its promise of luxury travel, we did four days solid walking around the City of Light. Central Paris is beautiful, designed in the late 19th C by M. Haussemann so all buildings are the same colour, style and height with a grid and diagonal street design. BUT this does get confusing when you’re trying to work out where you are, as street corners look very similar! The Seine is the ideal reference point – serene, restrained, lined with historic monuments. Take a walk along the Seine and across its bridges to breathe the history of Paris. This time we also did the Pompidou Centre – not an attractive building, but housing the best of 20th +
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