On the previous episode, we left James and Karen eating dinner in a French restaurant in Paris...

Following the dinner, we all strolled down to the River Siene, and boarded a boat for a cruise down the river. The architecture and bridges in Paris really are quite something to behold, and it was a great night for a cruise. The recorded commentry on the boat was quite cheesy though, it was some guy with a smooth French accent crapping on about how romantic the city is.

Day 2 in Paris was a fairly full and exhausting one.

We got up, and negotiated the underground again and found our way to Notre Dame. That's one big church I'm here to tell you, it's any wonder it took over 100 years to build. It's one of the great extravagences of Louis XIV, which I will talk more about in a bit.

From here, we wandered along the designer shopping strip, and saw a whole lot of ridiculously priced clothing, and found ourselves in a seven story, designer clothing department store. Again, more stratospheric prices, but the interesting thing I wanted to mention that we saw a lady in the shop with her dog. It's amazing, people take their dogs ever where here, on trains, into shopes, in taxi's, the works! I just can't imagine taking Floyd into David Jones to slobber on everything, but no one seems to care here.

To be continued.....