Paris – June 6/13

Today was an orientation day and after breakfast we headed off to find the Cityrama Tour Office. We are taking a 3 day tour of the Loire Valley starting tomorrow so we wanted to get ourselves straightened around on buses, the stops and the tour office. It’s an early departure so we want to make sure we know our way rather than scrambling in the morning.

After that we walked down the Seine and across one of the many bridges. The one we chose to cross is called Pont Des Arts and the real neat thing is the number of locks that have been left by couples/lovers over the years. The thing you do is purchase a lock, write both your names on it, lock it to the bridge fence and then throw the key into the river. A symbolic gesture that you are locked together as a couple forever since the key will be impossible to find.

After a bit of a break we headed to Luxembourg Gardens which is a large park in the middle of the city where we had a nice picnic lunch, there were hundreds of people out enjoying the day.