Monday, October 26, 2015

Piettes in Paris: October 7-18, 2015

Wednesday, October 7, 2015
  • Leave home at 10:15
  • 10:40 AM Bus to Chicago
  • AA Flight 42
  • Departs ORD at 3:30PM
Thursday, October 8
  • Arrive CDG at 6:45AM
  • Air France bus to Gare de Lyon
  • Notre Dame
Friday, October 9
  • Musée Bourdelle (10:00 – 18:00, T – N)
  • Montparnasse cemetery
  • Trocadero views of the Eiffel Tower
Saturday, October 10
  • St Eustache church
  • Rue Rambuteau market
  • Pompidou Center (11:00 – 22:00 W-M)
  • Saint-Merri (9:00 – 18:00, M-S)
Sunday, October 11
  • Orangerie museum (9:00 – 18:00 W–M)
  • Musée d’Orsay (9:30 – 18:00, T-N)
  • Packers at WOS
Monday, October 12 – travel day
  • Train to Lyon -10:58 Gare de Lyon
  • St John the Baptist church
  • Walk through Old Lyon
Tuesday, October 13
  • Funicular to Fourviere
  • Basillica of Notre Dame
  • Gallo Roman museum & ruins
  • Boat ride down the Saone, up the Rhone, and back
  • St George church
Wednesday, October 14
  • Beau Arts Museum
  • Museum of Confluences (11:00 – 19:00 T-N)
  • Museum of the Resistance
Thursday, October 15 – travel day
  • Train to Paris 11:34 Lyon Part Dieu
  • Madam Curie museum (13:00 – 17:00 W – S)
Friday, October 16
  • Carnavalet Museum
  • Maison Victor Hugo (Place de Voges 10:00 – 18:00 T-N)
  • Petit Palais Beau Arts museum
  • Rue Cler
Saturday, October 17
  • Sacre Coeur
  • Montmartre
Sunday, October 18, 2015
·         AA Flight 41
·         Departs CDG at 9:25AM
·         Arrive ORD at 11:50AM
·         12:20 Bus to Milwaukee
·         Home by 3:00PM
·         Packers at 3:25
Miscellaneous things to do in Paris
  • Musée Monmarttan Monet (10:00 – 18:00, T-N)
  • Musée Jacquemart-Andre
  • Catacombs
  • Natural History museum
  • Maison de Balzac (10:00 – 18:00 T-N)
Miscellaneous things to do in Lyon
  • Lyon greeters
  • n caraf d’eau = caraf of tap water
  • Un pitcher du vin = pitcher of house wine