Last full day in Paris, France and needed a train ticket. So it was Sunday and needed to go to the train station which was a couple miles. Saint Nathalie, the ticket saint, who worked at the train station and spoke 5 languages with American English being one! So, I quickly succeeded in buying my last two train tickets of my voyage which were to Bayeux (Normandy beaches) and then Bayeux to Paris and onto my final destination of Brussels, Belgium. Then it was much more walking to some sites that were in the area. Gravitated to the Natural history museums thinking, it was paleontology and evolution of humans, but never really found that museum. Instead went into the Natural History museums, beautiful gardens, Pantheon (
Pantheon, Paris description), Palais Luxembourg, and gardens at the Luxembourg. I loved walking the streets of cities and visiting gardens and parks. Lastly, never made it to Versailles for numerous small reasons.
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| Lots of parks - National history gradens |
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| Lots of folks reading and relaxing in the parks |
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| Pantheon - former church |
The final attraction on the list was walking down the Champs Elysees which is the shopping mecca and historical avenue to the Arc de Triomphe which was one massive arch. Lots of history happened there including WWII and the Nazis marching around the arc and then Paris being liberated and troops marching around the arc then. I really can not get the WWII concept of Nazi Germany conquering France but 150 years before there were numerous wars with French as the victors and some with Austria and Prussia as the victors, so it has been going on for a long time.
Last full day in Paris, France and needed a train ticket. So it was Sunday and needed to go to the train station which was a couple miles. Saint Nathalie, the ticket saint, who worked at the train station and spoke 5 languages with American English being one! So, I quickly succeeded in buying my last two train tickets of my voyage which were to Bayeux (Normandy beaches) and then Bayeux to Paris and onto my final destination of Brussels, Belgium. Then it was much more walking to some sites that were in the area. Gravitated to the Natural history museums thinking, it was paleontology and evolution of humans, but never really found that museum. Instead went into the Natural History museums, beautiful gardens, Pantheon (Pantheon, Paris description), Palais Luxembourg, and gardens at the Luxembourg. I loved walking the streets of cities and visiting gardens and parks. Lastly, never made it to Versailles for numerous small reasons. 
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