Public Transportation

My husband and I decided to vacation in Paris for ten days this past March. What a fantastic city!  The food, the wine, the art, the people, the shopping, the fashion, and the mass transportation.  That's right-one doesn't always rave about how great the mass transportation is in the City of Love, but I will.

First off, we did not need to use a cab the entire time we were there.  We flew into Charles de Gaulle airport and were able to easily find the train that took us into the city.  The train dropped us off about a block and a half from our apartment, and we had a short walk to our temporary home.  All ten days we were there, we used the (surprisingly clean) Metro, taking us from our home base in the Latin Quarter (where we enjoyed the fashions of the university students) to the outskirts of the city to visit the Marmottan Museum (where we were mesmerized by Monet's masterpieces) and up to the top of Montmarte (where we climbed the breathtaking Sacre Couer and soaked in the best views of the city).  It took us everywhere cheaply and easily.