The tour is now over and we are able to have a reasonable sleep-in. There are still a few of the tour group having breakfast.
We go for a wander over to the “new” arch which can be seen from the Arch de Triomphe. It is spectacular bit of architecture and is located next to our hotel, overlooking a couple of shopping centres, with the Metro rail system below these shopping centres, which we wander around for an hour or so.
Back to the hotel for final pack-up and check-out, for a taxi booked at 11.30am to take us to our booked Cittadines apartment in the 6th Arrondissement. We leave our luggage and go exploring in the area. Our first attempt at ordering lunch – baguettes and fillings, results in different fillings being received. We then successfully follow the map to wander around the picturesque Luxembourg Gardens.
We get back to the apartments and are able to access the apartment with our luggage. The apartment is very small…limited area around the [2] single beds pushed together to put the luggage….no tea/coffee making facilities. We find out later the beds are still made up as singles with the sheets/doona.
Catch up with the boys on their news, followed by frustration in attempting to book a bednbreakfast in Beaune…..web site wanting all sorts of log-in/registrations.
We head out for an evening meal around 7.00pm and eat in a little restaurant run by mamma and pappa by ourselves as apparently the French do not come out to eat until around 10.00pm. The menus appear to be based on 3 courses of different pricing structures, which determines what is on offer.
The only TV we can understand is a couple of BBC news channels, so the TV goes off.
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