Somewhere else in Paris

We began our visit to Paris at the Cambon Hotel. We stayed there last time and liked it so much, we decided on that visit to come back for our 50th anniversary.  The Cambon is across the street from the Tuileries, a few blocks from the Champs Élysées, less than a mile from the Louvre, and just a little farther to Notre Dame.  In other words, very convenient for places we wanted to visit.  Our pre-cruise extension, however, began today at a hotel right beside the Eiffel Tower, several miles from the Cambon, so we transferred to that hotel this morning.  That put us exactly where we needed to be to visit some other Paris sights and to be handy for the bus pick-ups for our cruise-organized activities in Paris.

It wasn’t hard to find a place for lunch. In downtown London and Paris, there are cafés everywhere–even entire blocks of cafés like this one.
We didn’t get to the Arc de Triomphe on our last visit, so we walked about two miles to check that off our list.
From the Arc de Triomphe, you can see all the way down the Champs Élysées to the Louvre.
We didn’t go up the Eiffel Tower this time, but it was fun to have it right outside our hotel door.