Tuileries

Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris's Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise.

There was a sense of wonder watching a musical on the West End or accidentally stumbling onto the Tuileries Garden and hearing a street performer play “La Vie en Rose” on the accordion.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame, which will be brought from Tuileries, where the cauldron has been on display and visited by tens of thousands of fans.

The hotel where they put Bill May is nice, expensive, across from the Jardin des Tuileries.

Among reported options are such iconic spots as the Eiffel Tower and the Tuileries Gardens outside the Louvre Museum.