Paris to Nice Cruise City of Paris Paris to Nice Cruise City of Paris October 2009

      Since  our suitcases didn’t arrive with us in Paris, I simply wore my pink traveling outfit for the city tour on Wednesday and Kathy, my MT nurse daughter, wore her jeans.  (The bags arrived at 9 PM that night). 
     On Wednesday afternoon Kathy went to Versailles and former Chicoan, Emily Blake, who was living in Paris, met me at the hotel and negotiated reservations for the Folies Bergere for Thursday PM before we strolled to the nearby Cafe de la Place where we sat at an outside table.  Emily treated me to a creme brulee and black tea which came with a small cookie.
     Prior to our night out, the hotel concierge called a cab that would accept a credit card.  What a scam!  After the cab driver took us to the wrong address first, he kept the meter running while he tried to run my card to no avail.  We ended up paying 39 euros.  The cab back was only 10 euros.  The good news was that the musical “Zorro” at the Follies was excellent.  We were familiar with the story since we had seen the movie previously without the choreographed dancing, dual scenes and singing.  It was better than a flamenco performance with clicking heels.