Saturday, October 6, 2012

Paris ~ ♥ Rue de Grenelle




We arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport on a SmartWings flight from Prague in the early afternoon.


Charles de Gaulle Airport, Terminal 3
 is rated, by at least one travel writer, as
 the 5th worst airport terminal in the world
Collecting our bags, exiting the terminal, and hailing a taxi all went smoothly and quickly ... Gus begs to differ as to the terminal's ranking. Our ride into central Paris took, at most, 45 minutes. Ian and Judy's apartment building is in the 7th arrondissement (Left Bank) ~
105 Rue de Grenelle
We entered a passageway which led to a courtyard. To our left was the main entrance to the building. Here, we rang the apartment button marked M et Mme Irvine. The door unlocked and we took the elevator to the 4th floor (equivalent to the 5th floor in the U.S. since, in France, the ground floor counts as zero). Our friends were waiting ...