Can you comment on one more itinerary? Please......thanks

I know there are a lot of similar requests, but would appreciate feedback our our plans.

arrive CDG from Canada 1030 am

take shuttle to apartment on Rue Sainte Anne 75001

stroll to Jardin Tuilieres

Place del la Concorde

Grand Palais

Pont Alexander and take the batobus to eiffel tower

(or take the bateux mouche from port de conference - pont de l%26#39;alma)

Walk around Eiffel Tower and then over to Tracadero

Go to Arc de Triomphe (go up tower) and take Metro ?? back to apartment.

Look for places for refreshment and food along the way

Day 2

Louvre

Notre Dame

Conciergerie

St Chapelle

Ile St Louis

St Sulpice

(night tour with cityrama cruise/dinner eiffel tower/moulin rouge)

Day 3

Day trip to Arras to visit Vimy Ridge

Day 4

Hotel Invalides

Orangerie

Orsay

Rodin

Garnier Opera

(not sure if we will actually tour Orsay, Rodin and Orangerie, but do want to walk by them)

Day 5

Leave for Bayeux, spend 3 nights there

Return to Paris around 4PM, stay in Montmartre area and see Sacre Coeur and neighbourhood.

Leave early for departure at 1000.

Thanks for any suggestions and input

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The only thing I might say is that, on day four, if you do more than just walk by, it%26#39;s a lot of museums. You might pick one of them...or one plus the Rodin gardens...and stick with that. Otherwise you run the risk of Museum Burn Out, which is a disease some people succumb to in Paris. They remember none of what they saw, just that they saw it all.

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Thanks for your input, that%26#39;s what I was thinking.

It%26#39;s a short trip to France. My husband wants to see WWI and WWII things, but we also want to fit in most of the main sights.

Seeing artwork is not really a popular pasttime with us.

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If your husband is interested in WWII history, he might enjoy the Memorial de Marechal Leclerc in Montparnasse. The best WWII museum (IMHO) in Paris. Not well known/no crowds. For info, see this:

…yahoo.com/p-travelguide-220191-memorial_du_…

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The garden at the Rodin is nice to visit and only costs one euro. Less %26quot;heavy%26quot; than actually going inside the museum.

It would be nice just to stop by and rest on you wanderings. Maybe eat a baguette and a bottle of water.

There are interesting sculptures and the gardens are beautiful.

Denise.

Love from England.

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Consider taking the Hop-On Hop-Off bus the first day. You can get on and off at your leisure.

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Something you might not be aware of... keep your eyes peeled for plaques on the walls of buildings... they are often there to commemorate a resistance fighter who died at that spot during the liberation of Paris. The name and date will be on the plaque.

You will also see plaques on the walls of some schools with the number of students who were sent to concentration camps with the connivance of the Vichy regime.

Sad reminders... lest we forget...

Rob

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