Booking our travel to Saint Jean Pied de Port (SJPP), we realized that it would be wonderful to spend a day in Paris.  This allowed us to not only begin to recover from jet lag but also to explore the City of Lights.

After our uneventful red eye flight from San Francisco to Paris, we took the train from the airport to our terrific hotel in the 5th Arrondissement, the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine just across the river from Notre Dame.

Upon settling into our room, we began our fifteen miles clockwise walking tour of Paris.  Along the way, we viewed:  Sorbonne, Luxembourg Gardens (with children pushing sailboats in the pond), Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomph, Mont Saint Michel, Sacre Coeur (and a spectacular panoramic view of the city), Moulin Rouge, and Louvre.  In addition to these terrific sites, we ate AMAZING Lebanese organic ice cream rolled in chopped pistachios and shared a liter of wine (one half at lunch and the other at dinner 🙂 ).

Paris in one day?  Sure!  Why not?!

I strung together six mini-videos of our day into one 3:28 video.  Click on this link for the video.  (I tried to embed the video…but the internet is too slow…and I’m too tired!  😘 )