Part Five: Paris, France #2

For breakfast, Teri and I tried a couple cafés in Montparnasse for the first couple mornings. It seemed to be the same breakfast everywhere: croissant ou tartine (baguette with jam), fruit pressés (fancy name for orange juice), et café (espresso). The next couple mornings we stopped at a boulangerie and picked up a pain au chocolat. I could learn to live like this. Easy.



We did a lot of walking (and shopping), and managed to pack an extraordinary amount of activities into each day.









These carousels were everywhere in Paris:



Also everywhere was the Olympic bid logo, Paris 2012. Its gaudiness kind of took away from the charm of the buildings. (After all that effort, Paris lost to London.)



One day we took a day trip to Versailles. We, uh, wandered around the grounds of the Chateau de Versailles, but didn't pay the 20 euros to go inside.





There were almost as many tourists here as there were in Bruges.





We soon left and walked back into the town.



They had nice fruit: