Up early to stroll in the chilly early morning. Compared with many other cities, Paris is surprisingly quiet before 0800hrs - although it certainly picks up after that.
There's no hard and fast rule that says you have to do a lot of walking to offset good eating, but it seems to work that way for us. A gentle amble up the Champs-Elysees to Etoile (absolutely mad around 0900hrs), and thence to Trocadero.
By this time things had warmed up a bit, and we were no longer getting looks from all an sundry implying that we were crazy people for not wearing jackets or jumpers (literally, every single person we saw during rush hour was - soft).
Unsurprisingly there were hordes around the Tour Eiffel.
They were happy to queue. We were most definitely not. Why ascend anyway? You won't get lunch there :)Sadly though, we encountered an indifferent lunch. Upside: Le Tir Bouchon just looks better and better!
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