Paris was great. My french came back to me and people seemed to understand it! Went to the top of The Eiffel Tower... something I had never done despite having visited it 3 times before. Our hotel was about 2 minutes from the Louvre, we could see it from our window!
Highlight for me was a business man shaking my hand over our shared hatred of Sarkozy!
That and going on the carosel at the bottom of La Tour at night!

We also got strange looks when we had conversations in english and irish at the same time. No offence to any americans (you can't paint everyone with the same brush) but they looked most confused when we had these bi-lingual chats.
I even heard one say "German? No, maybe like Dutch or something". HA!