Paris again!

We are just on the final day of our Springtime in Paris tour. We have had a great week despite some slightly dodgy weather towards the end of the week.

Another photo of the Eiffel Tower!

We stayed on the site on the outskirts of Versailles, set in a forest yet only 5 minutes walk from the RER station into Paris (20 minutes away) and 10 minutes on a bike to the Palace at Versailles.


We can report on very heavy queues to get into Versailles with the recommendation being to do the gardens in the morning and the house in the afternoon, when the crowds have thinned out a bit. Similar queues are to be expected for the Eiffel Tower though pre-booking your tickets will reduce the queuing time for minutes rather than hours!

We personally spent quite a bit of time down in Les Halles and St Germain, which are the shopping areas - somewhere we don't normally go to. They still have C&A on the Rue de Rivoli so you can go in there and buy sensibly prices clothes and then boast that you do your clothes shopping in Paris!

Hotel de Ville

We have had a fantastic group of people on this tour, which made the two rainy days go really quickly.