Today, we continued our bus adventures and also did a cruise on the river Seine.
The island in the middle of the river that contains both the Louvre and Notre Dame used to be a fortress where the king oof France lived. Taking this river tour really reinforced that. You can see how easily defended it was.
We visited the Louvre to see the castle, but we didn’t want to wait in the long lines, brave the crowds, and pay the high fees to enter the museum, but the castle was magnificent.
It was pretty cold. At dinner time, we encountered the first truly rude Frenchman of the entire trip. I didn’t want to drink alcohol and noted that the restaurant we were dining in had Coca Cola, so I ordered one. The waiter presented it to me like it was a bottle of wine and called it “American Champagne” then asked how I wanted my beef prepared- “burned the American way, or the French way.” Dick. It reminded me of this:
After dinner, we went to watch the Eiffel tower at night, as it was on my wife’s bucket list of things she wanted to do while in Paris.
The first 5 minutes of each hour, there are sparkling lights on the tower:
And that was our second day in Paris.
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