Tour Montparnasse & Jardin du Luxembourg

On a sunny and warm day, I took the Metro to Montparnasse and went up the Tower, something which I'd probably done on my last visit to Paris in April 1984 when I stayed in the area. From the viewing deck on the 59th floor, there were great views over Paris. Having being built in 1973, the Tower was showing its age, and a company has been appointed to modernise it with a hotel and other features.
I walked to a military church which was attached to a hospital but closed for renovation, and then returned to the Jardin du Luxembourg with its sunbathers, children's boating lake, and closed tennis courts., and the Palais du Luxembourg.Read more