PARIS

We finally made it, and it was a great run through the centre of Paris. You have to do some serious planning as you are only allowed to proceed round the islands, Île St-Louis and Île de la Cité, in a particular direction during a twenty minute window in the hour. That aside it was fabulous with all the famous sights that Paris can offer. We were lucky to have Margaret's brother to join us and he was happy to take the helm whilst we ran around taking photographs.

Passing by the Île de la Cité and Notre-Dame.

Good friends were on a bridge of the Seine taking photographs of our progress.

Tour Eiffel, Soraya and Geoff.

One of the problems of arriving in Paris by boat is there are few, if any, moorings for visiting boats on the Seine in central Paris so we progressed faster than planned. This had the benefit that we arrived a day early via the Canal St Denis to our mooring booked with the Mairie de Paris in the Bassin de la Villette which is great. Lots of bars and restaurants within a stone throw of Soraya. Yes we have sampled a few.

La Défense.

Now it's time for a few guests and some interesting exploring in Paris on foot and with Scoots.