Most important to us – before our day in Paris was over – was to have a dinner à la French cuisine. By the time we were done sightseeing, however, it was getting kind of late, and we thought it best to return to that part of the city where we had left our car, and set out from there to find ourselves a petit little restaurant. Well, we were lucky, because when we left the metro station, we realized that we had parked our car right next to just that – a petit little restaurant! So, we sat down, and with lots of ado (ordering from a French menu when none of us really speak French) and the help of some very obliging waiters, we managed to get ourselves something delicious to eat. Only to realize that we hadn’t just found ourselves a petit little restaurant, but that – in fact – it was a petit little restaurant with very delicious food, aaand … a grande view!

Quite right: as we were sitting at our table and watching the sun set over the city, some of us discovered that straight down the alley no less than the Eiffel Tower came into view. And of all the tables in our petit little restaurant, we had picked the only one from which you could see the grand display. So, in the end, we got – voilà: far more of a Parisian dinner than we’d ever hoped for!

Vive la France!