Itinerary of Our Visit to Paris

I had developed a very detailed itinerary for the visit of my grandchildren and me to Paris. The major items on the itinerary were chosen in consultation with my grandchilren. During our visit, we ended up modifying various parts of the itinerary due to interest, lack of time, weather, energy, etc. The main items we dropped from the itinerary was a boat ride on the Seine and a walking tour of the Latin Quarter. I had also planned to visit the inside of the magnificent Palais Garnier opera house. However, we only had enough time to see it from the outside.  I also changed all but three of the dinner restaurants I had chosen. That was primarily due to where we happened to be at the time.

Below is the actual itinerary of our trip. One interesting aspect of the trip is that by fly between the U.S. and Paris via Italy instead of directly between the U.S. and Paris, we saved about $400 per ticket.



12 June - Sunday

Depart U.S. and fly to Paris via Rome 

13 June - Monday

Arrive & take Shuttle Inter van to apartment on rue Rollin, 5^th Arrondissement

Apartment manager introduces us to apartment & neighborhood

Go to Cardinal Lemoine Metro Station & Purchase Passe Navigo Decouverte weekly subway, bus, & train pass

Find Hemingway’s first apartment - 74 rue Cardinal Lemoin, a few hundred feet from our apartment

Visit the Champ de Mars & Eiffel Tower. Visit to top of tower postponed due to crowds

Dinner at Le Royal Tour Brasserie, 23 Ave de la Bourdonnais. (We ate there in 2006.)

14 June - Tuesday

Buy Paris Museum Pass for 6 Days for €65 at the Pantheon, a short walk from our apartment

Breakfast pastries at La Boulangerie Parisienne at Cardinal Lemoine Metro Station

Eiffel Tower http://www.tour-eiffel.com/

Arc de Triomphe http://www.arcdetriompheparis.com/

Walk down the Champs Elysees http://www.champselysees.org/champselysees/ to the place de la Concorde

Attend comedy show - How to Become a Parisian - at Theatre de la Main d’Or, 15, Passage de la Main d’Or

Dinner at Le Chalet Savoyard, 58 rue de Charonne

15 June - Wednesday

Breakfast pastries at La Boulangerie Parisienne

Chateau de Versailles & Town of Versailles - by train - http://en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage

Dinner at La Fontaine de La Mouff, 2 rue du Pot de Fer

Gelato at Alberto’s

16 June - Thursday

Breakfast Pastries at Patisserie & Chocolaterie Pascal Pinaud, 70 rue Monge near place Monge Metro Station

Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp - Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, Venus de Milo, sections with Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian exhibits

Lunch in Louvre

Carousel du Louvre shopping mall

Walk through Royal Palace Gardens

Walk through Little Tokyo

See Palais Garnier Opera House from outside (no time for inside visit)

Go to top of Montparnasse Tower (great view of Paris) http://www.tourmontparnasse56.com/index_EN.php#/home,

Dinner at Les Deux Magots, 6 Place St. Germain des Pres

17 June - Friday

Breakfast pastries at La Boulangerie Parisienne

Chateau de Fontainebleau - by train http://www.musee-chateau-fontainebleau.fr/spip.php?page=sommaire&lang=en

Lunch at Le Delice Imperial, Fontainebleau

Dinner at Delmas Cafe & Restaurant, Place de la Contrescarpe

18 June - Saturday

Breakfast pastries at Boulangerie des Arenes, across from Boulangerie la Parisienne, which was closed

Marais Walking Tour with French guide - Ben of Paris Greeters http://www.parisiendunjour.fr/index.php?lang=en

Lunch at Le Relais de l’Hotel de Ville

Notre Dame Cathedral http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/-English-

Paris Archeological Crypt in front of Notre Dame http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en/museum-carnavalet/archeological-crypt-notre-dame-and-catacombs-paris

Sainte Chapelle http://sainte-chapelle.monuments-nationaux.fr/en/

La Conciergerie http://conciergerie.monuments-nationaux.fr/en/

Ice Cream at Berthillon, 31 rue St. Louis en L’Ile http://www.berthillon.fr/

Dinner at Au Piano Muet, 48 rue Mouffetard

19 June - Sunday

Breakfast pastries at Boulangerie des Arenes

Eglise du Dome - Napoleon’s Tomb, Les Invalides & Army Museum http://www.invalides.org/pages/anglais/menu_ang.html

Takeout lunch at Restaurant Brasserie La Tour Maubourg - ugh!

City of Science & Industry Museum http://www.cite-sciences.fr/en/cite-des-sciences - IMAX 3D movie - Oceanosaures, Attack submarine Argonaute, Modern Innovations

Dinner at Le Volcan, 10 rue Thouin

20 June - Monday

Breakfast pastries at Boulangerie La Parisienne

Takeout baguette sandwiches at Au Levain d’Antan, 2011 winner of Paris Baguette Grand Prix

Walking around Montmartre & Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/sacrecoeur.htm

Dinner at La Vieille Tour, 1 rue du Pot de Fer

Souvenir shopping at Par’Ici, rue Mouffetard

Gelato at Alberto’s

21 June - Tuesday - Depart Paris to return to U.S. via Pisa, Italy