Metro information

The Metro is changing many of it's stations to information only desks, with machines to buy tickets from. This can be disconcerting if you don't have coins for the machine or if your U.S. credit card has a magnetic strip, as opposed to a chip, and doesn't work. Be prepared, the Metro Pont Marie is such a station. The machines do work nicely with a roll bar for scrolling. They are, however, only in French. If you don't speak French, hopefully, someone else buying tickets will help you decipher it all. Buying a carnet of 10 tickets is a good choice but if you think you'll use the Metro a lot, get a weekly or even a monthly Carte d' Orange. We've used the Metro more this stay because of the weather and my having a sore foot. 

Here's a lovely morning view of Notre Dame one of the days we had some sun.  

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