Armand's Father speaks English, but was not home most of my stay. Marie is very very nice, home made jams and she printed out a couple simple maps for me to walk to the river/islands as I wanted to ride one of the River Boat Cruise/Tours. 1 hour for the one I took from in front of the Eifle Tower, but I took the Hop on Hop off Bus to get there. They do not announch stops so you need to figure out ahead of time where you want to get off, never being to Paris before was not their problem, but need a lot of research if going there and never been and at least have and practice using Translation on your phone ahead of time.