A tourist in Paris

Three months in Collioure and I felt like a resident. Only ten days spent in Saint-Tropez but I still got to know the butcher, went to the Marche three times and said hi to the staff at the time share and had them say hi to me . Four days in Nantes made me feel like I had family in France. But Paris, truly here I am a tourist. Five and a bit days into a ten day stay and I'm not sure I've been to the same place twice. We've tried different places for croissants, we might have a winner now, and every day has been a different direction on the Metro. Ok I have been to my two Metro stations more than once and the local dep as well, but, so many people go in and out I'm not recognized from the masses. My conclusion......if you are going to be a tourist this is a good city for it! Each day we head out after breakfast and return for a late supper and we will never see all there is to see. Even if we stayed for three months I doubt everything could be little more than glimpsed at. No, I will leave France feeling as though I have lived here and Paris as if I have had a holiday there. Even the Saint-Chapelle, small by most standards, would take months to take in all the stained glass stories. It is a city full of wonders which is no surprise since people have been living here for two thousand years. Myy only wonder is when will I visit it again and try to see more; it took eight years since my last visit and will probably be that much again. Perhaps we should live longer or have cheaper air fares...oh, and less work and more time to do all this stuff.