re: London & Paris combo trip

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Do you mind linking the apartment you stayed at? Seems like a great location.

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Not at all - here you go. It was great. No elevator, but that was really only a "problem" two times.

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Are Paris and London fairly doable as far as seeing all of the tourist boxes for someone with somewhat limited mobility?

Are things close to each other and or fairly close to train stations without having to walk long hauls?

My wife would be 4 months pregnant at the time of the trip and is worried there will be too much walking and she'll be tired/sore.

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My wife would be 4 months pregnant at the time of the trip and is worried there will be too much walking and she'll be tired/sore.

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Is this her first kid? 4 months is fine most likely, I'm not a woman, but my wife would have been fine at 4 months.

The answer is not really close to be honest, you are going to be walking a couple miles.

But worst case, just plan on doing some extra cabs or ubers to help out.

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The answer is not really close to be honest, you are going to be walking a couple miles.

But worst case, just plan on doing some extra cabs or ubers to help out.

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Cabs and Ubers, especially in Paris, sit. And sit. And sit in traffic. Places like Montmarte are total pains in the arse to get to in a cab/Uber. And then once you get there, you've a captive audience for the ride back.

Maybe if you include the Tube and SNCF/Paris trains, but especially in Paris, you gotta be prepared to stare at a route map that includes different lines in light green, dark green, medium green, olive green, drab green, and lime, amongst many other colors.

Not to mention, if you're in a car or on the train, you're not passing by the random Parisian dessert bakery that specializes in pistachio or hazelnut desserts.

Minimum, 6-7 miles a day walking, possibly twice that. You're either the kind of people that focus on the "strife" of walking with café experiences interrupting things or you just ignore the walking and focus on the experience, in which case neither of you should notice.

No offense intended, only you two know what is tolerable. But the world seems divided into two camps: My 6 year old daughter who climbs in the stroller if we're walking more than nine feet, and my (at the time) 8 year old son who trucks 12 miles on foot without complaint and just wants a double sized burger at the end.

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London is a dump, you will regret it.

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75% of Londoners will not go back to the office. Yet, outside of very specific use cases, we have people that insist that it's got multiple days worth of value. Curious that. Even locals told me there was nearly no pub that was actually privately (as in individual proprietor) owned in the city, they were all fronts for the same beer distributors under restrictive licenses, which the same four or five menus, which didn't really vary across the city.

But, not up to us. I didn't know until I saw it for myself, either. Sometimes your purpose in life is only to serve as a warning to others. Especially with a new wife, the box needs to be checked, I would suggest that OP plan the next trip while flying home.

Too many people do things (I know I'm not talking about the deep state here that has amazing amounts of info, but the "civilians" that come here for help, which I am only trying to encourage) and say, hey, I've been to London and Paris, so I've been to Europe! We should go to 30A next spring!

Always keep exploring. It's cheaper than you think to plan the next overseas trip. Maybe it's only three or four days on the ground. Fine. You're about to enter int o the land of "he's only four, he won't remember, we should wait."

Oh, is that why parents want to drop five figures on Disney for a birthday?

Kids remember, and are more adaptable than anyone wants to admit. With a newborn-ish, just schedule a trip to Central America during the Spring with a 12-18 month old. You need a pacifier for the flight to break the seals in the ears on altitude changes, and then the heat does the rest. Passed the F out.

You can condition kids, including young ones, to be resilient. It's not hard, and a 2.5 hour flight to a place that makes them want to pass out is a great opportunity to do so. Then, you drag their arse to Europe when they're five.

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You can’t go wrong even if you spend 1 day in either city.

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I'd give you an excuse if you did what I usually do on TD, is if there is a seven page thread, I skip over the first five pages and jump to near the end.

We've *precisely* been discussing spending less time in London, not NO time in London.

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We've *precisely* been discussing spending less time in London, not NO time in London.

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Which is not good advice. Spend the same amount of time in each. In fact, I would recommend a separate trip of at least a week to each. Both are amazing cities.