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Obama ends trip as American tourist in Paris (Extra)
Jun 7, 2009, 8:49 GMT
Paris - US President Barack Obama ended a landmark five-day foreign trip by joining his family in Paris and seeing the city like any other American tourist.
Early Sunday, a few hours before he was scheduled to fly back to Washington, Obama visited the Centre Pompidou, the French capital's best-known modern art museum, with his wife, Michelle.
On exhibition at the museum were works by the American sculptor and artist Alexander Calder and the Russian abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, as well as the centre's permanent exhibition.
On Saturday, following the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, the Obamas visited the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
In the evening, the presidential couple and some friends had dinner at La Fontaine de Mars, a traditional Parisian bistro in the city's Seventh Arrondissement.
A waiter at the restaurant, Gabriel de Carvalho, told i-tele news station that Obama had leg of lamb and the others ate steak, and that there was no wine consumed, only water.
Obama was scheduled to leave Paris for Washington at 1100 GMT Sunday, while his wife and daughters, Malia and Sasha, spend another day in Paris to have lunch at the Elysee Palace with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife - and to shop.
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