Today was a quiet travel day.  Luckily the tube strike was over or travel might have been a nightmare.  We caught a cab to St. Pancras for our Eurostar to Paris.  We arrived around 1:00pm and we were picked up at Gare du Nord by the shuttle from our hotel.  We have had long queues for cabs on previous trips and the shuttle was a reasonable price so we used it.  Obviously, the metro would be far cheaper but with a large case each plus a carry on the shuttle won.

We checked in to our hotel, where we had stayed before, the Hotel St. Louis en L’Ile, dumped our bags and headed to the corner to our favourite French café, the Café St. Regis.  We had a glass of wine with Croque Monsieurs – delicious.

My review of the hotel can be found here:  https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowUserReviews-g187147-d219996-r466414863-Hotel_Saint_Louis_en_l_Isle-Paris_Ile_de_France.html

The rest of the afternoon was spent wandering Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite.  We revisited all our favourite spots from previous trips and organised our Museum Passes and a carnet of metro tickets before dinner a couple of doors from our hotel at Aux Anysetiers du Roy.  I had classic French food Boeuf Bourgignon and Crème Brulee which were both as good as I remembered from previous trips.