While my Mom is in town I have centered our days around a major attraction with ensuring there is time to be leisurely especially through parks. This day’s adventure started on rue St. Paul, followed by a walk through Jardins des Tuileries, down the Champs Elysees and ended at the Arc de Triomphe. It also [...]
July 20, 2010
Today we decided head over to Montmartre to see the Sacre-Coeur and surrounding interesting spots. I decided to give the “City Walks” iPhone app another try and use it for our excursion because I received a nice email from the developers about the issues I was having: Hi Tara, The map problem is caused by [...]
July 18, 2010
My Mom and I liked our first self-guided walk that was based on “The Da Vinci Code” and so we decided to do more of the same. I had bad luck with the “City Walks” app so I downloaded a ton of new iPhone apps including one called “Rick Steves’ Paris Walk.” He’s that geeky [...]
July 17, 2010
My Mom arrived from Northern British Columbia yesterday. We are hanging out for two weeks while Sean is in the US. She hasn’t been to Paris before and I have oodles of time (I’m here until the end of August) so we decided to do do a bunch of walking around. I usually need some [...]
July 24, 2010