Day 6 - Thursday September 6

Today was a short in distance but long in time bus ride. We were taken to the Latin Quarter of Paris to see a neighborhood where people live.

 Ben Franklin, he lived in this area when he was in Paris way back when. 

 The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadero, so a nice elevated view of the Eiffel Tower from across the Seine.

 Arc de Triomphe, surrounded by 12rings of traffic, when we went through it wasn't bad. But the delays started after this. From what they figured out, due to the high number of emergency vehicles was that there was a gas leak!

 Finally made it to the Latin Quarter, Ernest Hemingway lived in the area in several places, and we stopped for a break in a small square surrounded by cafes. Here if you want to use the toilette, you need to buy something to be polite. Not like in the US where we just go into a fast food place and do your business but don't buy anything.

 

 

 Little shops selling seafood and fruit.

 

 

 Bus ride back, we pass right in front of Notre Dame and right under the Eiffel Tower.

  After dinner the captain unmoored the ship and we went a short distance up the river so we were closer to the Eiffel Tower. The still shot shows a small version of the Statue of Liberty in France which was given to France by the US to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French revolution. Initially the statue faced the Eiffel Tower, but it was switched and now faces its counterpart in the New York harbor.

At night the Eiffel is lighted but additionally at the top of the hour lights are flickering, so by moving us closer we had a much better view.

 Yes, I really was there, me and Eiffel in the same shot!