DAY TWO

After getting our luggage and buying 1200 French Francs, a Globus Rep. put us on a taxi to get to the hotel. The first people we met on the tour were a couple from Allentown, Pa. (Rick and Pam). She saw our Globus bags when we got off the plane and when Pam saw me with our luggage in the airport she ask me where we got our luggage. They got to the hotel the same time we did and we rode the Metro together on our way to an afternoon of sightseeing in Paris, France. We got off at the Notre Dame station and they stayed on until the Louvre station. WE didn't see them again until the next morning at breakfast in the hotel. After finding Notre Dame on the Seine River with the help of an unlost policeman and using a tiny pay toilet on a Paris sidewalk, we started on a Narrated City Bus Tour. It took us all over the old part of Paris where we saw squares, palaces, museums, an opera house, the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Art Museum. We rode the Metro, or the Paris subway, back to hotel to meet our tour group and have a welcome drink.  We all rode our tour bus to an area of Paris where the Moulin Rouge Nightclub is and caught a tram which took up a hill to a restaurant district. We had dinner at Auberge de la Bonne Franquette, a place with live music and a lot of group singing. We had a very good 4 course meal with plenty of wine. We took a funicular back down the hill to the bus and got another narrated city tour on our bus with our guide and at night. The places looked familiar but a lot different with all the lights. We finally got to bed about 12:00.  Because of a 9 hour time zone difference, we got about 1 or 2 hours sleep on the plane in our bodies last 35 hours. We spent the first night (after the second day) in Paris.