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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saint Chappelle!! It’s the most beautiful little church and well worth waiting in line for. The museum pass let’s you jump the line, but we waited and I was so glad we did - I could have spent all day in that church looking at the stained glass. [/quote]

+1. Sainte Chappelle is beautiful. If you can, try to time it to see it on a sunny day - the sun streaming through the stained glass is spectacular.

My favorite thing to do in Paris used to be to climb on top of the towers at Notre Dame, which alas is not possible these days.

With 10 days there, you definitely have time to get out of town. Versailles is a day trip, or you can do Normandy or the Loire Valley. We did a day trip to the LV by a bus tour, highly recommend unless you have a particular interest in that area that would necessitate a longer stay. We got to see Blois, Chambord, Chenonceau and something else that I’m not recalling right now. Versailles is very worth it as well. [/quote]

Yes Sainte Chappelle was surprisingly moving for me as well- and normally stained glass isn't anything amazing to me.  But it was so overwhelming in scale and detail.

One suggestion for a second day trip (I think Giverny is almost a must in the spring) is to go to Vaux-le-Vicomte instead of Versailles.  It's much more contained and reasonable to see in one day, and the crowds are so so much less.  It was essentially the predecessor chateau to Versailles- the backstory is pretty wild.  It was built by the finance minister, and when he hosted a huge party for Louis 14th to show it off, Louis 14th became enraged and had him arrested.  He then hired the architect, designer and landscape architect to do the same concepts on a bigger scale at Versailles.  The gardens are incredible, the highlight for sure.

It's a bit more complicated to get to because there is a 15 minute bus ride after the train ride from Paris, but the bus is timed to the train and it's all pretty seamless.[/quote]

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