Paris

The Metro strike isn't quite as benign as I thought on the first day we got here, the delays also apply to the buses and tonite we waited for a while for the 95 bus take us home and decided it would be better to try the metro. Although there was a train every 10 minutes or so but they were completely packed at 8pm and we let two go by without getting on. Without the stroller it would have a been a very tight squeeze. With the stroller, it was just not going to happen. Finally we went back to the 95 bus and I folded the stroller up and we squeezed on.
The beauty of a bus ride in Paris is of course the marvelous sites along way. There's something really amazing about your bus stopping right inside the plaza of the Louvre.

Or going past a very Jules Verne style metro station. In fact alot of the city makes me think of Jules Verne. The interior of the Cite metro stop is like being inside what I imagine the engine room of the Nautilus would look like.

The lights of the Printemps. All from the bus window.