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cod and ds1 off to paris in tow weeks

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:20

have just booked th eirostar.
ok so we have all day fridaya dn all day saturday
please suggest itinerary
he is 8
he wants to do.........
eiffel tower
louvre
champs elssyes

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auntyquated · 01/09/2006 19:23

just the 2 of you? what a brill idea ...some friends went last year and bought a kids travel guide; they loved it.

notre dame?
arc de triomphe?
pompadou?

StrawberryMoon · 01/09/2006 19:23

your spelling was traditionally you, until all the tricky names?!

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:24

oh yes me and him
this looks good

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southeastastra · 01/09/2006 19:24

my son keeps asking me to take him too he really wants to go

MarsLady · 01/09/2006 19:25

how lovely codliver! What a great idea.... I hope you have a lot of fun.

auntyquated · 01/09/2006 19:26

this site was good when we were looking for dordogne ideas

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:27

this may give him an overview of th history or be good if it rains

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:29

ooh it is ogo isnt it aq
tour of the sew eers looks good

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roisin · 01/09/2006 19:31

Get to the eiffel tower early one morning to beat the queues - they really do get extremely long.

If he really wants to go in the louvre, then spend some time researching - decide what he wants to see and get a map and find out where it is. Otherwise you just end up walking miles and miles of corridoors and just getting very tired.

Cruise up the Canal St Martin with Canauxrama was one of the boys' highlights when we went to Paris.

auntyquated · 01/09/2006 19:32

the books look good too

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:39

VERY good tip abotu eiffel tour

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roisin · 01/09/2006 19:43

DSs preferred the Musee d'Orsay to the Louvre (by a long way). They also enjoyed a fairly quick look in the Pompidou Centre, which is free - so a brief pop in is easily justified - and just short walk from Notre Dame if that floats your boat.

Where are you staying?

What else? Arc de Triomphe was also particularly successful - as even amateur 7 yo photographers can get fantastic photographs there.

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:43

when i last went a paris the pomp was shut

whats is IN there?

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:44

staying at mates in la defense

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AvaLou · 01/09/2006 19:45

The sacre coeur is unmissable, better than the eiffel tower!
also the catacombes.

AvaLou · 01/09/2006 19:45

ooh especially with an 8 year old boy, the catacombes will be fab!

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:46

i knwo the eiffel tower is dull but he is 8 and he thinks he needs to go

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NewTermAtMaloryTowers · 01/09/2006 19:47

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:49

yes mate used to love dnear b de b but i think well stick to the cnetre

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roisin · 01/09/2006 19:50

Lots of fairly mainstream stuff like Kandinski, Picasso, Mondrian, Matisse, etc.

But another floor of more modern work as well.

Children love the building too: long, long escalators on the side of the building in transparent tubes.

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southeastastra · 01/09/2006 19:51

i saw the catacombes on tv they look v scary!

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:51

aha we LIKE modern

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:52

it is for being the eldest brother of three and being endlessly tolerant of his brothers.

just a treat really.
hell be great company - he is VERY energetic and inquisitiev a dn is VERY good at maps.

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ocd · 01/09/2006 19:53

( imagine taking a labrador to paris but one that is continent) itll be like that

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