{"id":645,"date":"2013-08-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=645"},"modified":"2013-08-11T23:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T23:43:34","slug":"day-3-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &ndash; Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Nadine\u2019s nieces and nephews wanted to visit Euro Disney.&nbsp; Instead of joining them at Disney, Nadine and I decided to explore some local sites on foot.&nbsp; The day was a little overcast, with some periods of sun and some some brief periods of light drizzle, but otherwise a good day for walking around.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast at a local cafe in the Op\u00e9ra area, we walked past Place Vendome to Rue de Rivoli to Place de la Concorde.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071186\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071186.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071200.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071213\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071213.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071215\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071215.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071218\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071218.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>From Place de la Concorde, we walked up the Avenue des Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071231.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071253\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071253.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071259\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071259.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\">&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071271\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071271.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071269\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071269.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071290\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071290.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"764\"> <\/p>\n<p>After visiting Arc de Triomphe, we headed over to the Eiffel Tower.&nbsp; Since it was threatening to rain, we decided to hop on the metro to our next destination.&nbsp; The Paris metro, while rather dirty, smelly and run down, is very extensive and can take you just about anywhere quite easily.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071294\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071294.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"764\"> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the security threat was, but French soldiers with large weapons were walking around everywhere.&nbsp; France can put up a fight?&nbsp; Who knew!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071297\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071297.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>After our tour around the sites, we walked along the Seine and back to our hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071305\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071305.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>After a brief rest, we met up with Nadine\u2019s family after their day Disney, and headed out for dinner.&nbsp; We took the metro back to the Champs Elysees and selected a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071320.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071326\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071326.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>Back at our hotel, we took another quick walk around the area.&nbsp; Below is the opera house at night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071334\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071334.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>Below is the Academie Nationale de Musique on the other side of the opera house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071344\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071344.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>Here is Nadine standing in the doorway to our hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"P8071340\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8071340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8071340.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Nadine\u2019s nieces and nephews wanted to visit Euro Disney.&nbsp; Instead of joining them at Disney, Nadine and I decided to explore some local sites on foot.&nbsp; The day was a little overcast, with some periods of sun and some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parislondon-2013","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}