Paris

My flight over was fine, I did not sleep much so have spent the last few days fighting jet lag. I don't bounce back like I used to.

The apartment I have is nice it's in the second arrondissement and quite close to the Louvre. I have not been there yet but have a ticket for Wednesday. Sunday and Saturday I spent in the area of the apartment. It is mostly a pedestrian area so fairly quiet but easy to walk around.

This afternoon I went to see the newly reopened Notre 

Dame Cathedral. It only reopened last week so I wasn't sure I would get in but the line moved quite quickly. It really is beautiful. 

The audio guides to rent from the cathedral were not ready yet, but I was able to download one from the internet to get a better sense of the history of the  cathedral. Love the internet.

One thing that kind of creeped me out though. I had just gotten off the train and walking to Notre Dame and I saw about 8 policemen walking towards me with machine guns in their arms. I would have taken a picture but fear that they wouldn't like it and might arrest me stopped me.

I also went to a Christmas Market. There was a guy selling roasted chestnuts, some nice looking cheese and lovely jewellery. Even Santa was there.

I find food is quite expensive. Some stuff looks like the same price as home but then I remember the Euro is twice as much as the Canadian dollar!!

I cancelled my trip to the Normandy beaches, with the Canadian dollar being so low it would have cost about 500.00 and I felt that was a little too much.