09/04/2026
Paris to London: Part Two of our summer travels.
After a quick flight from Zurich to Paris, our first day in Paris allowed time to get settled in at our sweet boutique hotel, situated on the Left Bank in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, Espirit Saint Germain. Merci Didi Johnson our Luxury Travel Advisor and Friend.
We covered plenty of Paris with Sean, Michael, Tina, and Tracy & Brian Friedman: Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie, Notre-Dame, lunch at Chez Julien, wandering the Marais, and we were fortunate to visit the Mémorial de la Shoah, where we found the family name NesselStrauss on the Wall of Names, a powerful connection to our family history.
We enjoyed an incredible evening aboard Ducasse sur Seine, savoring contemporary French cuisine aboard an electric cruise boat on the Seine. MaryAnn visited boutiques while Sean frequented coffee bistros and played our tour guide by day and ventured to cabarets and clubs by night.
Paris also checked off one of MaryAnn’s long time bucket-list wish the Eiffel Tower.
A few days later, we boarded the Eurostar for London, arriving on July 4th. We checked into The Stafford and spent the next few days seeing London with Sean, spent a morning in a small car visiting “Beatles’ favorite spots, so many sights, great nightclubs and plenty of miles on foot.
During our evenings, we had great dinners with Tracy, Brian, Michael, Tina and Taylor (Tina’s daughter), Jody and Amara who live in the UK.
Somehow Sean always becomes our tour guide. He loves it, or at least we think he does and we happily follow along. We cherish the uninterrupted time together, it is really what makes these trips memorable.