Paris Part 2 by Dave

Our third full day in Paris (Friday the 5th), was getting towards the end of our visit there, mainly involving more sight seeing. We first of all headed out to the Moulin Rouge, the legendary caberet founded in 1889. Alice had gone to a show on her previous visit to Paris, so was very keen to get back there to see it again. The same show was on that she’d seen, so she couldn’t buy the DVD of it (they put it out on DVD when they change the show), but there were a few souvenir’s in the shop that she invested in!

Good to see the different areas of Paris, the red light district (around the Moulin Rouge) was certainly an eye opener, and that was at about 12 midday!! We stopped for a coffee at Le Chat Nori (French for The Black Cat) cafe, which was the location of the famous 19th century caberet of the same name which was closed in 1897, much to teh dissapointment of Picasso and other famous people who frequented the place when they visited Paris. Very comfortable, we asked the waiter if he spoke English, he said no, then asked us if we spoke French, we said no, we managed to get around that and ordered a coffee though.

We then headed to the Sacre Cour, a massive Catholic church up on a hill, with a fantastic view over Paris. Theres heaps of guys at the base who basically jump on you trying to tie some kind of bracelet on you, Alice and I managed to avoid them, but there were some people who got suckered in, and probably had to pay for crappy bracelets that they didn’t want to start with, suckers!! The view at the top is worth all of the stairs and climbing, once again, awesome photo opportunities for Alice to play around with her new camera.

After this we headed back towards the centre of Paris, through the Montmarte area, amazing architecture again, so much older than little old Australia!! Again, back to the hotel to rest up, ready for the evening.