How to visit Paris with kids (not a guide)
Day one.
Plan to meet friends at the playground, an enormous one familiar from last year's visit. Hope to recreate the fun of the zip line, the train play structure, the bouncing bridge. Know that you're borrowing trouble; you shouldn't expect to recreate anything. Eye the clouds as you leave your apartment and wish for an umbrella. Get on the metro.
Exit the train twenty minutes later and stand in the station watching the rain pour down the gutter next to the stairs while your kids say, "Come on!
Plan to meet friends at the playground, an enormous one familiar from last year's visit. Hope to recreate the fun of the zip line, the train play structure, the bouncing bridge. Know that you're borrowing trouble; you shouldn't expect to recreate anything. Eye the clouds as you leave your apartment and wish for an umbrella. Get on the metro.
Exit the train twenty minutes later and stand in the station watching the rain pour down the gutter next to the stairs while your kids say, "Come on!
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