15th Feb- Paris Day 2

On Day 2 we got up excited and ready to see Paris in the daylight. So we headed to the River Seine for a stroll and to see where the day would take us.

Basically we got off at Pont Neuf because for some reason I thought I had heard of that and thought if I had heard of it something about it must be interesting. Turned out it was a bridge with a bunch of carved heads underneath. The Seine has about a kazillion bridges running across it. Quite pretty.

We wandered along until we ended up at the Louvre and took a look around the outside.
From here we wandered through what I expect is a a fairly notable Parisian park full of statues and ponds. I am sure in the Spring it must be stunning but in the bleak Winter it wasn't that exciting and the ice on the ponds made it look a bit scummy. At the end of the Park was the Obelisk and from there the Champs Elysses.

From this point we spied our first sighting of the Eiffel Tower in the distance. But more excitingly for Tim he ran into a waffle van. Tim can't pass a waffle van without stopping for a snack and amazingly enough waffles were super popular in Thailand which is where Tim's waffle obsession took full flight.

We then wandered back in the direction we came to find Notre Dame Cathedral.
Its a very impressive building. The stained glass windows are incredibly beautiful- the colours are not your typical churchy glass windows but have bright pinks, torquoise etc. The colours don't show up well on the photos. There isn't much atmosphere in the Cathedral though as its so jam packed with tourists wandering around with cameras etc.


After this we headed back to the apartment to meet Bron who was travelling up from Renne to stay with us.
It was great to see Bron and almost quite weird to be in Paris with her. But like all good girls from Dubbo we spent our first evening gossiping about people we haven't seen in ages and drinking beers from a can. Poor Tim!