Walking and walking and sightseeing...and more walking

We just finished up with our Wego Walking Tour, which was truly a lot of fun! The tour guide, Paul, is young and has a ton of energy. You literally walk over half of the city as he gives you the history of the landmarks in an entertaining fashion - much different than those boring, monotone tour guides. (Buehler? Buehler? - Lol.)  He's a wealth of information and has some very valuable tips & tricks for skipping a lot of the museum lines too! He was born in Mexico City to French father and Italian-American mother, so he's tri-lingual...and his English is superb!

Here's some of the tour's highlights.  We started at Notre Dame in late morning.

This gold star in the pavement in front of Notre Dame represents the center if the city and is what distance in the city is measured from. There are several old wife's tales that go along with this landmark...jumping up and down on it will bring your true love or spinning around on it to ensure you'll return to Paris. We just took a picture and skipped the jumping & spinning. :)

From there we walked down the Seine and to the Pont des Arts bridge with all the love locks.  Apparently recently a portion of the side railing collapsed under the weight of the locks...weighing about half a ton! You can still put locks on the bridge, but we chose to forego it in hopes of preserving it a bit longer.  Instead...we took a selfie!

Next, we walked over to The Louvre! Such a gorgeous area!! 

Loved the gardens there! Where else can you find a random, nicely groomed goat?

We also saw the "smaller brother" of the Arc de Triomphe just outside the grounds of The Louvre....

...and had a wonderful, street food snack - a ham & cheese crepe! Super delish!!

This Eqyptian obelisk also stands just outside The Louvre grounds and had real gold leaf at the top.

Nice shot of the Eiffel Tower from our walk across the Pont des Alexandre III.

We ended the tour at the Eiffel Tower...3.5 hrs later. There was lots of other mini stops along the way and a ton of fun stories. I truly would recommend this tour in Paris!  Best of all, it's free...just tip if you like it! Here's a quick shot of out tour guide, Paul, at the last stop.

We're off to actually tour the Eiffel! Cheers!