My Back Yard

This week’s Sunday Scribblings assignment is to write about a topic you research. My Google search topic? “Paris top tourist sights.”

The first Google result linked to a book on Amazon. Not very helpful.

The next result was Cycling in Paris. That’s not very representative of Paris, but it suits my interests. Iggy and I try to bike wherever we go.

I moved on and found
Paris Top 10 Attractions
The must see sights of Paris
1. Eiffel Tower
2. Louvre
3. Arc de Triomphe
4. Notre Dame Cathedral
5. Avenue Champs-Elysees
6. Latin Quarter
7. Concorde Place
8. Rodin Museum
9. D’Orsay Museum
10. St.Chapelle & Conciergerie

I realized I saw nine out of 10 of these sights when I visited Paris in high school with my parents. I don’t know if the D’Orsay Museum existed back then.

Concierge.com’s list of things to do and see in Paris came next. I’ll have to print out this article because it listed less mainstream places to visit as well as some interesting classes to take.

On my bicycling trip from Amsterdam to Brussels, I got used to being in the front half of the pack.

But that was on flat land, with leisurely riders. Today I returned to reality bicycling the gently rolling hills from Concord to Carlyle and back. I lagged Iggy the entire time, often by several house lot-lengths.

I consoled myself with strawberry ice cream at the farm in Carlyle’s state park.