Paris - The Seine - 7me

Plate LIV - A Restaurant Boat…

Walking through the city is hungry work. I took the opportunity of having lunch on one of the moored restaurant boats on the city. Although I am not generally great at spending time on stationery floating objects, I found the experience delightful.

Many of the pleasures of life on the Seine are available to the tourist. The most popular of these are the well known Bateaux Mouches. It is worth taking both day and night voyages along the Seine in these glass roofed vessels. The day trips help with a different city orientation than is gained from the heights of the outlooks afforded by the arches and towers of Paris. The night trips offer dining from gourmet meals to lighter fare, and one probable reason Paris has become known as the city of lights is more than apparent. I would once again take one of these night journeys purely to see once more the spectacle of the Eiffel Tower by night. I cannot imagine how the decision to dim the lights in the interests of ecology has changed this display.