After a fairly tacky lunch on the tower, we descended and continued our walk down the Champs de Mars – the green area below the tower - and along to rue Montparnasse. Here I found a shop where I got some new jeans, because apparently those I’d been wearing were too baggy. We continued back to the hotel via the Luxembourg Gardens, another first in Paris for all of us.

Because our feet were complaining, we chose to dine close to our hotel in a restaurant on the Seine called la Bouteille d’Or. We all enjoyed this meal and it would have been very positive except for the miscalculation in the bill that took forever and a bit of heated conversation to clear up – you know who got heated up.

So this concludes our 2007 trip to France. As we packed this evening we felt very content to go home and very fortunate to have had so many marvelous experiences. Some of them seem so long ago now. Although we still really love Peter & Margaret’s Mas de Viales in Cavillargues, we were pleased with our new accommodations, although both had sites that required a lot of travel to see highlights of the areas. We are presently very undecided about what our next trip to France – for indeed there will be another – should include. We’ll let some time pass to work that one out. So in the meantime, La Vie est Belle!