Our first full day started by purchasing a subway pass for three days - the one week pass runs Monday thru Sunday, so that wouldn't do. It took a few minutes to work it all out - the cashier didn't speak English. The subways are all numbered, and you pick direction by the end of the line you wish to travel towards. Tranfers require walking. On older subway cars, you must lift a handle to open them. Here is a subway map. The hotel is less than one block from the Vavin stop.
3-day
subway pass
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We went to the Musée d'Orsay - we
almost didn't get in because of power problems (we stopped at a local cafe for
a couple of Coke Lites and a pastry, at the suggestion of a museum employee).
We used a 3-day museum pass to get in - that worked well as we didn't have to
wait in any lines. You can purchase the pass here.
We did the Hotel de Invalides and saw Napoleon I's tomb and parts of the Musée de l'Armée.
We stopped at 2 churchs; one, St. Germain Des Pres, dates from 550 AD. The other church, St. Sulpice, had three Delacroix frescoes in the first chapel.
We came, we saw, we shopped. We ate dinner at Brasserie Lipp and didn't return to our room til almost 9pm, bone cold and tired.
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