Meet Patrick Vidal, our tour guide
Patrick is funny, friendly, and high-energy--check out his blurry hand, which he uses to supplement his verbal communication. Patrick was a teacher, and a tour bus driver, and now he guides tours for the Rick Steves organization. Here, Patrick explains how easy it is to use the Paris metro (it is). Advice Patrick gave early in the tour: "Be super polite. Say thank you for everything and ask about people's day and their families." Good advice in Paris or anywhere else.
Patrick is funny, friendly, and high-energy--check out his blurry hand, which he uses to supplement his verbal communication. Patrick was a teacher, and a tour bus driver, and now he guides tours for the Rick Steves organization. Here, Patrick explains how easy it is to use the Paris metro (it is). Advice Patrick gave early in the tour: "Be super polite. Say thank you for everything and ask about people's day and their families." Good advice in Paris or anywhere else.
It's illegal to visit Paris without seeing
the Eiffel Tower
Just kidding. But we weren't going to miss a night-time gander at the City of Light's crown jewel.
Here is the Eiffel Tower at night viewed from the Trocadero, where we had dinner at Le Wilson cafe with Alan and Sue C. from San Diego. Earlier in the day, Sam and I had ridden an elevator to the top of the Tower, gawped at Notre Dame in the distance and the city of Paris at our feet, and walked all the way down. On our way home from dinner with Alan and Sue, we got a bit turned around, which gave us a chance to see a different Paris neighborhood and learn firsthand when we asked for directions after midnight that people are people wherever you go, and they mostly are at least decent if not downright wonderful.
the Eiffel Tower
Just kidding. But we weren't going to miss a night-time gander at the City of Light's crown jewel.
Here is the Eiffel Tower at night viewed from the Trocadero, where we had dinner at Le Wilson cafe with Alan and Sue C. from San Diego. Earlier in the day, Sam and I had ridden an elevator to the top of the Tower, gawped at Notre Dame in the distance and the city of Paris at our feet, and walked all the way down. On our way home from dinner with Alan and Sue, we got a bit turned around, which gave us a chance to see a different Paris neighborhood and learn firsthand when we asked for directions after midnight that people are people wherever you go, and they mostly are at least decent if not downright wonderful.
Is the magic of Paris her architecture? Her art? Her people?
Yes.
Yes.