Paris a quick tour

A new morning arrives after sleeping for 12 hours. Paris at 6:00AM is not very active. The morning cafes are just beginning to set up shop. The restaurant in my hotel doesn’t open until 7:00AM. I don’t have anything to do, this early, except to shower and get cleaned up for the day.

I go to the hotel restaurant to eat breakfast. I have a bowl of cereal, a croissant, a glass of orange juice, a yogurt and I grab an apple to carry with me. The charge is 23 euros. Wow, that is a $46 breakfast. I had forgotten how expensive Paris is. It didn’t take long to remember. I did 10 units of Symlin and 6 units of Humalin R.

I head out and walk the neighborhood to see what is around me. There is not much open, so I take the time to explore. You see more and find more when you walk the back streets.

I have a work peer that is traveling with me and we connect. It is his first trip to Paris, so he wanted the fast tour. We meet by my hotel it is across the street from the Arc de Triomphe. We spend a few minutes at the Arc and then we caught the Metro to the Eiffel tower.

It seemed to be warm today. I checked my BG and it was 253. You would think from the walking and the medication, that I would not be so high. I expected to be low, so I don’t know if it was the breakfast or time change or something else, but I was too high. I did a between meal adjustment injection. We then climbed the stair to the second level of the tower and took the elevator to the top. It was a great view, but we have more to see, so we wide the elevator all the way to ground level and head to Notre-Dame.

There wasn’t a Metro stop close by so we walked and found a restaurant for lunch. Ten more units of Symlin and seven units of Humalin R. The Metro took us close to Notre-Dame, but we weren’t sure which way to walk when we came above ground, so we walked completely around a big build until we found a sign, that directed us to the left. We went right when we came out of the Metro.

Notre-Dame was impressive as usual. Crowded inside, we walked around it and looked at the many small chapels inside. Enough looking around Notre-Dame and we stopped off at a small Café and had coffee on the street side. The time change was catching up with us, so we headed back to our hotels to rest before dinner.

We both decided we were too tired to get out, so we stayed in for dinner and made an early night of it. I had done Paris again, I had seen enough. I am ready to head home, but

I have three days of meetings to attend before I can head home.