Paris :: Days 2 & 3

We are exhausted.

We've spent the last two days touring, walking, eating, walking some more, touring some more, walking, eating....

Yesterday was a bus tour of the city in the morning, followed by visits on foot to some of the monuments the bus went past too quickly.

Pyramid at the Louvre

A statue of Joan of Arc

Arc De Triomphe

Notre Dame

Pantheon

Pont Neuf (one of the many bridges over the Seine

Then we spent the afternoon shopping and checking out everything going on while choosing what to get for dinner.

Today was a visit to the Eiffel Tower first thing in the morning (we got there early and joined the queue just before opening time so didn't wait too long).

From the top

Then we went to the Rodin Museum to see this:

Then it was an evening tour of the Louvre. Like everything else in Paris, the place is simply immense. 

The scale, detail and obvious amount of money that's been poured into the entire city over centuries is just amazing. Jesika is already talking about the next time we visit :)

Tomorrow, we leave for Switzerland to visit family for a couple of nights. We're also going to change mode of transport for the next few destinations - tomorrow's journey is the first of four train trips (the rest will take us to and through Italy).