We arrived in Paris Tuesday, having left our house at 5:30 Monday morning, and having successfully stayed awake for the five hour layover in Toronto. We have been asked a number of times why we took such a circuitous route -- as Tom says, when the tickets are free.... In fact we have flattened our United Airlines miles account, and that is worth a lot. So now.... We arrived about 10 AM Tuesday, grabbed our bags, and decided to take the bus into Paris and a cab to the Jeanne's apartment, saving about half the 100 euros it cost to take a cab the entire way last time. We got into the apartment without any problems, and Tom went out for some bread and cheese and the Herald Tribune, and I tried valiantly to stay awake until evening. But 4 PM it was hopeless, so we both crashed, and pretty much stayed that way until the next morning. I did emerge a couple of times to read for an hour or two, and Tom did the same, but we were exhausted. As much as we do not like Air France, the food is good and it is non-stop, making it a lot easier to adjust to the local time -- about 8 hours less travel time and leaving at 4 PM instead of 5:30 AM.
Tuesday afternoon we took a walk to Citroen Park near the apartment, where there was once a car factory. That evening we met Anne and Pauline for dinner at the Cafe de la Butte in Montmartre. Lovely. Then back to the apartment, a spate of packing, and the set the clock for our Thursday train trip to La Roche sur Yon.
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