Paris - Day 16

We bid farewell this morning to our hotel for the last 6 nights, the Hotel du Jeu de Paume, on the Isle of St Louis. A small but very pleasant and well located hotel.

We travelled to Bercy, in the south eastern part of Paris, and checked into our hotel for the next three nights, the Pullman Hotel Paris Bercy to join our tour of Southern France.

The hotel was located very close to Bercy Village, a strip of offbeat designer shops, bars and restaurants in buildings that were converted from former wine stores. We looked around the shops and had lunch in one of the restaurants.

In the evening we met the tour guide, Emmanuelle, and our fellow tour members in the hotel bar and afterwards had a welcome dinner at a nearby restaurant in the village. The tour group were mostly Americans, with a few Australians and South Africans.Read more