Today it is raining and a bit miserable this morning, so not part of the plan! We played lots of rounds of Uno with Mum, Kara and Connor whilst Dad watched the rugby. After lunch it cleared up so we got the metro to Sacre Coeur which is a famous church on a hill in Montmarte. We could see it from the balcony from our apartment and it looked beautiful as it was all lit up, so we wanted to go and see it. After we got out the metro we walked to the church and it was quite hilly. We actually had to walk up about 200 steps to get to the entrance of the church.
Outside of the church there was a view of the whole of Paris and we could see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. We got on the little tourist train (it had wheels) to go around Montmarte which is the area nearby the church. The train was packed and we didn’t have much room at all! We saw the famous nightclub/cabaret area called the Moulin Rouge.
We then went into the church which I thought was nice but not as nice as Fouviere. We decided not to go up the dome on the top of the church as we were tight for time and we wanted to take Kara and Connor to see the Notre Dame cathedral. We took the metro down to the river Seine where Notre Dame is and had a walk around. We could see progress on the rebuild of the church already after the fire earlier this year.
We heard that the French President Macron has ordered that the church be restored before the Olympic games are held in Paris in 2024 (5 years from now). Originally the plan was to take 10 years! We were hungry and thirsty so it was time for a drink and another crepe. We found a small Lebanese coffee shop but it didn’t actually serve coffee as we would know it. Dad’s coffee looked like water and he said it smelled like perfume and Mum’s mint tea was really sweet. The crepes were lovely though and a lot cheaper than yesterday’s ones!
It was getting late in the afternoon so we had a quick walk to some gardens nearby which were called Jardins du Luxembourg. They were very pretty but we were only there about 10 minutes and a man came and started blowing a whistle to get us to leave as it was 5pm. In the gardens there were nice buildings that were protected by armed guards with semi-automatic guns! As we left, we saw another museum called the Pantheon which was also closing.
The Pantheon has the graves of some famous French people including Marie Curie who was famous for discovering chemical elements which she used to help fight against cancer. It was dark now, the lights were coming on and it was time for dinner. Connor ordered snails to start – yuck!! He said they were delicious but I didn’t try them.
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