I think the difference in approach has a lot to do with how you see the trip. For some people it's a

Is this a bad thing? I have a list going of what is closed on which day (mostly vancouver sport car rental the museums) and which day the markets are open in which neighborhoods. This will be our third visit so I don't feel a lot of pressure to see everything. Maybe each morning we will start walking in a different direction. Can this work?
Absolutely it can work. I think that takes the pressure off to go-go-go and see everything, vancouver sport car rental which is impossible anyway. I did something similar to yours this last trip in October by listing the top things I wanted to see in order. I had researched restaurants in the neighborhoods of each and wine stops, too. In the morning we would pick which we wanted to do for the day and went that way. It worked great for us.
I actually vancouver sport car rental do this often, vancouver sport car rental but this last time I did notice we wasted a good bit of time being indecisive, particularly about where and when to eat. So in retrospect I wish I had made more of a dining plan because we only had a week.
wE DO IT THAT WAY ALL THE TIME AND LIKE IT BEST. I know when things are open and any special events we want to attend but the rest of the time we are free to wander aand wonder at the sights. I do know what restaurants we want to try or revisit
I'm honestly sorry you felt the need to actually ask this question but obviously you are slowly improving. Enjoy your trip and no you do not "have" to write a trip report, take any photos, eat in any particular place, avoid KFC, or pretend you are "fitting vancouver sport car rental in."
Dinner is a different story. I'm not going anywhere without at least a partial dining plan. Seen too many people turned away from places vancouver sport car rental that were divine. Also have had bad meals when dining without a plan.
no concrete plan? Less taxing, more fun, embrace the freedom ...and prepare for unexpected rewards. For example, Not being a foodie per se, I have always found that NOT having a dining plan has taken us to seek out the "mom and pops" for some delicious dining experiences, catered to by loving people. Took wife a little getting used to..then she was even more willing to go the "no plan" route.
Maybe I'm the only one who had a bad experience of going to Paris with no plan. We had a fantastic time in London for 5 days and then took the chunnel to Paris in 2010 because we managed to snatch a last minute prepaid hotel room at a popular vancouver sport car rental boutique hotel at the Place de Vosges but unfortunately, one day before our arrival, we received a regret email stating that they made a mistake and refunded my prepayment in full. We went anyway since we already booked our transatlantic vancouver sport car rental flight out of Paris.
The concierge at the major hotel where we ended up staying at could not get a table at any great restaurant for lunch or dinner for that entire weekend due to some major meeting going on. I called around a few restaurants myself while shopping and amazingly got a last minute cancellation table at the classic le Grand Verfour (which I've never been to) but the manager apologized for the big mistake when we arrived as they actually vancouver sport car rental had no table. We ended up eating at the Virgin Megastore Cafe, Leon de Bruxelles, Georges at the Pompidou and some random local caf s (I didn't research/bring notes on new cafes to try), it's hard to believe that we didn't get to eat anything great for 3 days in Paris.The only fancy dinner our concierge managed to get was at Ledoyen which had an impressive interior and service but disappointing food (overcooked fish, reheated dried up appetizer), no wonder every table was occupied by foreign tourists.
The only museum we wanted to see was Picasso, we walked all the way there only to find out that it was closed for renovation. We wandered around the left bank without any purpose and had no real desire of seeing/doing anything. We realized that we did not plan,dream or long to get excited about anything vancouver sport car rental in Paris so we just hanged around rather bored inside the Luxembourg park and shopped by default. It was a huge regret after an exciting stay in London. We realized that part of it was because we could not get into the mood for Paris. I think we need to plan if we ever decide to go to Paris again.
Stu, no, I am Allison from upstate NY. We are not foodies and have no desire to eat at high end restaurants. We will be very happy to find some small mom and pop places! I think we wil likey eat a nicer lunch and then nibbles for dinner because vancouver sport car rental I don't care for eating dinner relatively late.
DAX, sorry your experience wasn't good. We did have a meal at Leon De Bruxelles, vancouver sport car rental and surprisingly, enjoyed it! It wasn't great food but we were sitting on a Paris street, eating and having a glass of wine. How bad could that be?
My DH is a no plan person, and I plan down to the second--especially so we can be assured of getting into the restaurants we want to eat at. Even though he doesn't vancouver sport car rental want a plan, the first thing out of his mouth in the morning is "where shall we go today?" So even if I didn't have a plan, I'd have to make one up--on the spot. So when people say that they don't plan, I always wonder how they choose whether to go left or right when they open the door of their hotel to take off for the day.
Over the years I've gotten better and I no longer plan day by day, street by street, but I do have a general "plan" with options to select from each day. What helps me most is the markets. We start off for a particular market in a different vancouver sport car rental arrondissement each day and then let things and a good map take tehir course. Markets are my favorite thing in Europe--or anywhere for that matter, but particularly in Paris, they can serve as the nucleus for a developing plan. Enjoy your time there.
I'm often astonished by the degree to which people plan their trips including reservations for lunches and dinners at specific places, but each to their own. It seems to me much is a matter of personality.I think a balance is helpful, we don't plan events for specific days but I often have a sheaf of information I've downloaded, articles, trip reports restaurant suggestions or info on museums/markets etc. I have travelled without this kind of research but often found we wasted a lot of time at the destination deciding what to do, as someone mentioned above.
I think there is a middle ground between planning everything like a military operation and what I'd prefer to do with a long list of things that might interest, perhaps making a dinner reservation if that's vancouver sport car rental what you like, and leaving the rest to happen or not happen as you like. Letting each day happen and take you depending on your mood.
I think the difference in approach has a lot to do with how you see the trip. For some people it's a "trip of a lifetime" perhaps they won't be back or feel they won't be back because they want to see other places, either way this tends to put the pressure on to see THE places vancouver sport car rental including the restaurants du jour. We always feel we'll be back so I can be quite laid back.