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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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