Another Day in Paris

Friday 22 July in Paris was a long day ... a hiking up stairs day ... a high views of Paris day ... an extreme transit day including 11 different "segments" we call them including transfers and 7 different subway lines including the funiculaire hillside tram ... so. very. exhausting. ... Great day seeing a lot of Paris.

Upon the excellent suggestion of our host Sebastien, we went to Buttes Chaumont, a park designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. We walked to the tower shown close up and from below and enjoyed a picnic lunch. When we were done we found a cafe near the bottom and Brian and I had very expensive cappuccinos. More transit and more stairs as we headed to Rambuteau metro and the Centre Georges Pompidou, a modern building housing a modern art museum. We were reminded that modern art means just about anything.

This is a model of the UK exhibition at the Shanghai world fair; note the Union Jack. After the Pompidou Museum we walked farther than we wanted to in the rain the Musee Carnavalet, a free museum on the history of Paris. The gardens were nice and the inside was very interesting, at least as much as we could translate from French.

After the park and two museums, we schlepped over to Montmartre and took the funiculaire to Sacre-Couer. More great views from up high and a beautiful church as a bonus. Delicious pizza and salad along the nice shopping street at Montmartre. More subways home. So extremely tired.

Overdid it today for all of us. Fewer activities planned for Saturday.