We're in Paris - Yippee!

The trip from Moret-sur-Loing took us three days at a fairly leisurely pace. As we approached the city the banks of the Seine changed from millionaires' houses with amazing gardens (parks!) to the industrial quaysides of silos, power station and ever bigger barges. Where the River Marne joins the Seine we saw the biggest Chinese restaurant you can imagine. 

Takeaway Anyone?

From then on it was carefully counting the bridges to locate the lock into the Port de l'Arsenal. The lock itself was crazy - it was quite small and had the metro thundering above us, a lunatic playing a saxophone immediately beside us and a French boat insistently pushing in behind us leaving us uncomfortably close to the lock gate. Even with our two way intercom there was such a cacophony of noise we hadn't got a clue what was going on at either end of the boat.  Once in the marina, a strong wind picked up just as we were berthing, which made backing into our narrow berth very challenging. But, it was worth it. The view from our window includes the new opera house and the July Monument and the Place des Vosges is a short walk away - fantastic.