We'll always have Paris

 It had been eleven years since our last trip to Paris. That time we flew from Zaragoza to Beauvais airport, and it rained quite a lot. 

At the beginning of this August we flew from Manises, Valencia, to Orly. Flight, fine. Arrival, good. Transit to Paris, Orly airport disappointed us. It's only 13 kms from the centre of Paris but there were no trains available because the lines were under repair. There was no information about that until we had followed all the signs to where twe were supposed to take the train. The buses were, naturally, overloaded. So we got a taxi. Easy, and not too expensive for 4 people travelling together.

Our hotel

From the dome of the Sacre Coeur

Trocadero

There were an incredible number of people there

This balloon was where they had the olympic flame last year.
We were lucky with the weather-it was hot but not unbearable. Since then there has been a heatwave which would have made it very difficult to move about there.
Paris is lovely, unique, exciting, tiring, crowded.