Paris - a summary of our 7 days here

We have all been a tad slack blogging while in Paris, I think the main reason is that we did a lot in Paris - perhaps too much as it took a lot of energy being there.

It is still the most beautiful city I have been to, but it was so busy and frenetic, that my love of the city has waned.  However, there were still lots of highlights, mine were:

taking a break on our walk from our apartment to the Koetsiers place

• Catching up with the Koetsiers, who have been living in Paris for 6 months now
• The apartment we had at 276 Rue St Honore
• The food - didn't have a bad meal, loved the charcuterie plates in the afternoon after a day sightseeing  and we especially loved l'absinthe restaurant in a place off St Honore where we had a great french meal including snails, frog legs and steak and the lunch at the Koetsiers (including confit of duck, foie gras and great cheeses)     
• The wine - we didn't have a bad glass of wine, even in the dodgier cafes.  I especially loved watching the world go by at the end of the day from our local cafe, with a glass of wine in hand

ending our Montmatre walk with a crepe and a beer

• The art, especially Musee D'Orsay
• Discovering more about Montmartre - taking a self guided walking tour taking us to out of the way museums including the Dali museum, past houses where Renoir, Picasso and Van Gogh once lived, eating crepes and finishing the tour with a beer
•  Going back to the apartment I lived in 24 years ago, and walking along Mozart Avenue to Trocodero and watching the boys' reaction to seeing the Eiffel Tower up close for the first time
• The river cruise of the Seine