- walk around old parts of the city (e.g., the Marais (e.g., rue des Rosiers) & Place des Vosges, rue Mouffetard) - if you're there in July/August, see less popular attractions, e.g., Saint-Denis Cathedral (a bit out of the way), church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres (renovations??)

- buy bread from a bakery that has a line (locals) out the door at 7:30am on a Sunday - many fantastic day trips outside Paris. Versailles likely *mobbed*; alternatives: Fontainebleau (palace+forest), Chantilly (chateau & Musée Condé), or towns like Chartres or (further) Troyes

Trains are good, realize there's basically 5 levels of train (with last 3 leaving from the major train stations): - Metro - RER (faster than metro) - Transilien (Ile-de-France region's trains) - trains from other regions that go to paris - national trains (Intercités, TGV)