Today was a super busy day! I feel like I hit up everything!!!
We first went to the Catacombs, and actually only stood in line for about a half hour. We went down the stairs and I felt like we just walked into a tomb. It smelt like wet dirt and it continued to as I walked further down into the catacombs. The bones and skulls created patterns like hearts or stair step shapes, or lines lining the hall ways. The lime stone had various colors from the water marks going down it, and of course if water drips down the rock it means it can also drip on me… multiple times.
The next stop was Notre Dame… sadly the line was too long to get inside so we just took pictures outside and boy is it big!!! Most definitely made me want to watch the Disney movie, Hunchback of Notre Dame!
Hard Rock Café was a bit more difficult to find here. Mostly because no one speaks very good English, so it’s a lot like talking to a wall. We got off the Metro and I feel like we walked back and forth for about 20 minutes then we finally found someone that knew what we were talking about. When we were finally seated, I looked around and it looked very similar to the ones in the US, TVs on the walls scattered everywhere, guitars sticking out of or on the walls, finally France had the feel of America for a few seconds!
The Paris Opera House was our final stop for the day! Everything went by and took us a lot less time than we originally thought! The exterior is magnificent! The stairs leading up to it, the dome roof, the pillars arches, you name it! Then I went inside and it is twice as incredible! I stood in the same place Phantom of the Opera was filmed. The Interior Stair cases are amazing, and the detail work put into the carvings and sculpting and paintings is some of the most complex I have seen.
The rest of my final free day in Paris consisted of relaxing and trying to catch up on blogs. And im sure you can guess, hardly happened at all.
~Folle Journee~
Elyse
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