Our Last Day

We took the Metro to Anvers and then walked to the Abesses Metro stop to meet our tour guide from Paris Walks for a tour of Montmartre.  Paris Walks is great because you don't need to sign up ahead of time -just meet your guide at the appointed spot, pay a minimal fee and off you go.  The guides are all professional, speak English well and really know their area.  Our tour was 2 hours long and there were about 20 of us.  We saw all the interesting spots in Montmartre - the only remaining windmill, the apartments where many famous artists lived, including Salvador Dali, Au Lapin Agile, a famous nightclub, the last vinyard in Paris and ended at Sacre Cour, a Romano-Byzantine church started in 1870. Throughout the tour we had alternating rain and sun, which made it difficult for our guide but didn't detract from the tour. We then went into Sacre Cour, which is unusual and beautiful.  The view from the hill upon which it sits is spectacular.  We walked around the corner and went to St Pierre de Montmartre, which was originally a Benedictine Abbey and is one of the oldest churches in Paris, founded in 1133.  A stray bomb during WWII destroyed the stained glass windows and they were replaced by Gothic style stained glass.  We stopped at a bistrot, St Jean, for lunch and  had  Croque St Jean (tomato, cheese and ham) and beer.  We walked around for a while, bought candy in a beautiful chocolate shop, got the Metro back to Bastille and picked up some macarons to bring home at Lenotre. We finished our packing, called to confirm our pick-up by the limo service and then went out to Au Bouquet St Paul for a light dinner.  We shared a salad and baked camembert with honey and we both had Onion soup and Berthillon ice cream for dessert.  I had caramel and pear and Leas had caramel and raspberry.  Back to the apartment and to bed, sad that this wonderful adventure has come to an end, but so glad we were lucky enough to experience it together.

Great metro sign

Artist apartments

Statue on Sacre Cour

Sacre Cour

Croque St Jean

View from Sacre Cour