A work colleague has just returned from spending new year and the weekend in Paris.
She too visited the Eiffel Tower, Le Louvre among other places with her fairly new husband.
Bearing in mind she is of French origin and booked the trip as a surprise for him for Christmas, she has returned completely disappointed.
She reports, in her words, that Le Louvre had a strong, unmistakeable odour of urine hanging over it, along with the Metro, where she was made to feel so uncomfortable by the homeless people constantly approaching her for donations, that she actually cut her trip short by a day. There's more to her reports, but it would take far too long to type it all out.
I was quite disappointed to hear this as I quite fancied booking a weekend away myself.