I had always heard that Paris is a city for walking and wandering, and I now see what people mean: We walked miles and miles each day. And while the museums and touristy spots were certainly a highlight, some of my favorite memories are of when we just strolled around and discovered places and things we hadn’t read about in the guidebooks. We stumbled upon a random restaurant (which really looked and felt like more like a bar) on our first morning, for example, and it wound up being our favorite place to grab a tartine and coffee each morning. (It wasn’t fancy and seemed like a place that locals, versus tourists, would go.) And on our way to the Eiffel Tower one afternoon we walked through a pretty and quiet (read: non-touristy) street and suddenly stumbled upon the Place des États-Unis and a park called Square Thomas-Jefferson! Given our love for the musical Hamilton (and Jefferson’s role in it), it was a very cool (albeit random) find, and we wound up stopping and sitting for a while to enjoy the sunshine… A good memory indeed!

-M

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