One day is just better than the next. Today we went a little farther afield to the 18th arrondissement of Montmartre and the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur. Sacre-Coeur is located at the summit and highest point of Paris so you can pretty much overlook the whole city when you're up there. Amazing. It's a beautiful church from the outside as you can see, no pics were allowed inside but it has a mosaic of Jesus that is huge and breathtaking to see. Spotted another bride and groom today, guess getting married on a Monday is not unusual?
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| Sacre-Coeur |
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| View from the steps |
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| Another happy couple :) |
Montmartre I must say has been my favorite in terms of streets and feel of authentic Paris the way I pictured it to be. We had lunch at a lovely cafe and sampled our first crepes, mine with chorizo sausage and cheese and egg and Karli with just cheese, of course. We didn't take as many pictures today because I think we were just taking it all in. Did a lot of walking, stopped at a park to read our books for awhile and did some shopping.
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| Yummy dejeuner! |
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| Paris has the coolest doors, here's a set from Montmartre |
We then headed to the Montmartre Cemetery which is completely indescribable. The cemetery is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry, dates back to the late 1800s and is the final resting place of many famous artists including Degas. It is incredibly enormous and the monuments are jam-packed together as far as the eye can see. It is both sobering and somehow inspiring and a reminder of today being Memorial Day for our country when we saw so many fallen for France today as well in the defense of their homeland.
Ended the day with a little exploration of our own neighborhood of Montparnasse in the 15th arrondissement which we hadn't really walked at all. Much more of a neighborhood feel and found a Pizza Hut, a very busy Pizza Hut within a block from us, crazy. Ate dinner at Le Toucan, met some people from Minnesota that just arrived, that was fun, stopped at a boulangerie for fresh from the oven baguette, actually banette (a little smaller), plan to stop back in the morning for what looked like very huge, very yummy chocolate croissants. Then looks like we'll be off to the Palace at Versailles tomorrow and dinner with friends from home tomorrow night.
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| Our neighborhood Pizza Hut |
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| Yes, this is a Mercedes-Benz taxi cab-- craziness! |
By the way, we really miss all of you back home and love your e-mails and comments.
A bientot!
Kelly & Karli
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