Paris in February ....
Clearly not the best time to go though there aren't many tourists. I had a bad cold that kept me in the hotel room most of three days. we still managed to encounter several noisy impolite "ugly" Americans in restaurants and hotel lobbies, it's embarassing. I managed to walk around a bit our last day to learn a bit more of the 8th. Haussman did a fine job of urban renewal back in the day making the Paris of post cards, but the area outside the Peripherique (circle highway) is ... unimpressive, utilitarian looking.
So, kind of a bummer trip, my wife had some banking stuff she finally got attended to.
We had lunch at one restaurant I mentioned that was excellent, wish we had something like that around here. We had another lunch almost next door that was not good at all (not McDs).
Hotels were $300 per night, paid upfront no refunds, which is steep of course.
