We just got back from a wonderful few days in Paris (in which we had no Internet access at all). Instead we walked around to a point when my feet had far too many blisters, but we managed to see quite a lot indeed. T.'s parents and his sister and brother-in-law were in Paris for the first time and they had put together a long list of places and sights they would like to see and we managed to visit most of them. Apart from going to places such as the Eiffel tower, the Champs Élysées, the Tuileries, le Grande Arche, the Notre Dame, and the Montmartre and several other places within the borders of Paris, we also went to the Versailles and Claude Monet's house in Giverny by the river Seine.

Feeling very welcome in our rented house in the beautiful village Bougival to the west of Paris, and receiving a lot of help with my father-in-law's electric wheelchair both on the train and the RER, we realized that the Paris area is filled with so many kind, wonderful and helpful people. Merci, merci beaucoup à tous! We left Paris immensely touched as well as grateful. We very much look forward to returning some time soon.