Thursday - May 14 - PARIS!

We arrived in Paris this afternoon after a short train trip from Brugges, with a change of train in Brussels to the high-speed Thylys train.  The train travels at a standard speed until it reaches the France border where the train tracks have been upgraded to accommodate higher speeds.  Once in France, the speed of the train almost triples and we reached Paris in just over an hour.  

We are staying in a two bedroom apartment in the Marais.  It is quite large, about 1,100 square feet.  Very nice kitchen and living spaces. The only draw back is the forth floor walk-up.  But the views are incredible.  We look out over the rooftops of the Marais and can see the Eifel Tower and Centre Pompidou from our windows.  

Tonight we had dinner in a restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne located on an island in the large lake.  We took a short two minute boat to reach the restaurant that is located in a swiss chalet reputedly moved here by Napoleon in the early 1800’s.