France - Paris
Bones and more bones in the Catacombes
Of all the sights in Paris, my favorite was the Catacombes. If you are scared of ghosts don't go here. What do you do when the graveyards in your city fill up and there is nowhere to bury people?? You exhume the old bones and stack them in disused mine tunnels under Paris, and charge tourists good money to visit them. This is the fate of millions of Parisians and you can walk for half an hour seeing nothing but bones stacked to the ceiling. Also being cool and damp down there it was a great releif from the 30 degree heat up on the street.
Gargoyles at Notre Dame
After the Catacombes I walked down to Notre Dame Cathedral, I climbed up the bell tower to check out the hunch back but he was not home... Guess he got sick of all the tourists. There were plenty of Gargoyles around though and they had a great view over Paris.
The icon of Paris at night
The time to see the Eiffel tower is at night, during the day it looks drab but at night it looks awesome. I watched the France vs Spain game at a bar nearby which France won 3-1, a result no one expected. Paris went into party mode!
Mont Martre, the home of the artists
I stayed in a hostel in Mont Martre which is famous for being the red light and artistic area of Paris, it is the home of Moulin Rouge. It was a good place to be and really cranked at night.
Sacre Coeur, the place we hangout at night
It was only a 15min walk up to the Sacre Coeur which was on the top of Mont Martre hill. It was a great place at night as it had brilliant views over the lights of Paris. It drew a lot of people and had a real party atmosphere with buskers cranking out the songs. Every night we went up there from the hostel and had a few beers.
The Seine with the Louvre on the left bank
I had a good couple of days in Paris but I was also glad to move on. Paris is a great city but it was choked with traffic and tourist congestion. I saw the craziest driving of my life in Paris and whilst I was at the Arc de Triomphe (20min) I saw 3 separate car crashes. I guess its not really suprising when you have a roundabout with 8 lanes and no lane markings! It is officially the worlds largest roundabout.. Looking around there were not many cars in Paris unscratched.
Of all the sights in Paris, my favorite was the Catacombes. If you are scared of ghosts don't go here. What do you do when the graveyards in your city fill up and there is nowhere to bury people?? You exhume the old bones and stack them in disused mine tunnels under Paris, and charge tourists good money to visit them. This is the fate of millions of Parisians and you can walk for half an hour seeing nothing but bones stacked to the ceiling. Also being cool and damp down there it was a great releif from the 30 degree heat up on the street.
Gargoyles at Notre Dame
After the Catacombes I walked down to Notre Dame Cathedral, I climbed up the bell tower to check out the hunch back but he was not home... Guess he got sick of all the tourists. There were plenty of Gargoyles around though and they had a great view over Paris.
The icon of Paris at night
The time to see the Eiffel tower is at night, during the day it looks drab but at night it looks awesome. I watched the France vs Spain game at a bar nearby which France won 3-1, a result no one expected. Paris went into party mode!
Mont Martre, the home of the artists
I stayed in a hostel in Mont Martre which is famous for being the red light and artistic area of Paris, it is the home of Moulin Rouge. It was a good place to be and really cranked at night.
Sacre Coeur, the place we hangout at night
It was only a 15min walk up to the Sacre Coeur which was on the top of Mont Martre hill. It was a great place at night as it had brilliant views over the lights of Paris. It drew a lot of people and had a real party atmosphere with buskers cranking out the songs. Every night we went up there from the hostel and had a few beers.
The Seine with the Louvre on the left bank
I had a good couple of days in Paris but I was also glad to move on. Paris is a great city but it was choked with traffic and tourist congestion. I saw the craziest driving of my life in Paris and whilst I was at the Arc de Triomphe (20min) I saw 3 separate car crashes. I guess its not really suprising when you have a roundabout with 8 lanes and no lane markings! It is officially the worlds largest roundabout.. Looking around there were not many cars in Paris unscratched.
posted by Peter Spencer at 2:01 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Pete.
You follow in your Morfar's footsteps, he too liked Mont Matre, but he was silly enough to bring his whole family! The shot of Sacre Ceur is awesome
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