We started Paris off with a walking tour that took us to Notre Dame, the sites of Marie Antoinette’s imprisonment and beheading, the Louvre courtyards, and a few other places. We got more history about the places in Paris than actually seeing them, since it’s too far to walk to all of the places in a reasonable amount of time. From there we got lunch in a French restaurant, and then actually went into the Louvre. That place is amazing. And not just because of all the stuff inside – the building itself is just amazing. And massive. You’d never make it through the whole thing thoroughly in 3 days, so forget seeing it all in 3 hours. But I can now claim to have seen the Mona Lisa in person. We headed back to the hostel to grab dinner and were going to go out on the pub crawl, but we were a tad late and just tired (somehow travelling for 2 months does that to you), so we gave it a miss. Tuesday morning we were all set to go to the Catacombs and stopped at reception to clarify on directions, only to find out that the place is temporarily closed (they just don’t tell you that on the website). So we popped up to the Moulin Rouge and the Sacre Coeur district. We grabbed the subway over to the Arc de Triomphe, and strolled through town window shopping. The booths for the Christmas markets are erected, but not open yet. Too bad for all my friends and family....Caitlin stopped in the Impressionist Museum, but I was just beat so I grabbed a cup of coffee instead and watched the sun go down and the city light up over by the Louvre. Then we headed up to the top of the famed Eiffel Tower. It really is quite the view. We finished our night with a lovely dinner in a French restaurant and packed up all our belongings. Now for home!
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