Finally, it had to happen. It was time to farewell Paris and head off on the next stage of our adventure.

So after farewelling our landlady* , our favourite breakfast cafe and St Germain, we headed for Montparnesse station via the Metro. Between us and our train are stairs, lots and lots of stairs. It must really suck to be in a wheelchair in this ( Read more... )

Today is the day we most wanted to spend in Paris - our tenth wedding anniversary.

Naturally, that means we go and visit the Catacombs. In the midst of Death, etc....

( First, a warning..... )

Wherein our intrepid adventures set forth into the vast spaces of the Louvre, hunting an elusive painting and discovering divers strange wonders.

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Today we visited a house built for abbots, patted Montaigne's foot, hobnobbed with unicorns, saw a Golden Rose, visited a mysterious lady and the animals that attended her, touched a Roman ruin, lit a candle in the oldest church in Paris , drank hot chocolate with long dead surrealists (also Ernest Hemingway), visited Broadway circa 1957 (hello ( Read more... )