Another big day. We started with a walk to The Pantheon. An amazing building on the outside and even more impressive on the inside. Columns, statues, paintings and a very impressive crypt, housing many of the famous people including Pierre & Marie Curie, Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin and Louis Braille, to name a few. A very impressive list. We then hopped on the bus again for another trip around the city past Montparnasse, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Gare d Austerlitz, St Sulpice, until our bus broke down. We then walked to a Magic Museum, watched a magic show and saw some old magic tricks. We wanted to go to La Conciergerie but were running short of time before our Eiffel Tour Illuminations tour which was an hour walk, 40 min train/walk, 1 hour bus or 40min boat ride. We opted for the walk as this we could guarantee would get us there on time. Which we made with 10mins to spare. We had an amazing tour guide and really enjoyed this tour. The view was fantastic, cold and informative. 7 million tourists visit the Eiffel Tower each year, 13 million to Notre Dame. Not bad revenue at 15 euro to summit of Eiffel Tower. The tour was great, we caught the Metro back to our area and then had our most expensive dinner yet. A great day followed by a lovely meal. I definitely won’t be eating out for 6 months after this holiday DB will still be recovering from the shock of it.
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Super heroes shop. Darth Vader only 289 euro
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The Pantheon, another magnificent, old building under restoration.
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Just a little doorway in to the Pantheon
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Main area inside the Pantheon
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Large painting on the wall of the Pantheon
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The sculptures were of enormous proportions also with intricate detail
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Pierre & Murie Curie tombs in the Pantheon Crypt
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The Pantheon Crypt corridors. An enormous cavern under the Pantheon
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I loved the way the buildings are rounded triangles, but their shape makes for painful and trying driving conditions.
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Tour Montparnasse, is a 210m office skyscraper and after it was built Paris hated it so much they ruled no more skyscrapers were to be built in their beautiful city
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The Eiffel Tower
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Les Invalides – museums of military history, a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans.
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Les Invalides – also the burial site for some of France’s war heroes, notably Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bikes for rent in France. Cycling is a major form of transport for the French
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Place de la Bastille is where the Bastille prison once stood. Now the Colonne de Juillet stands at the centre of the square.
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Ministry of Economics, De Bercy, Paris
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Pont de Bercy is a 175m bridge over the Seine River in Paris
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Travelling on the Hop on Hop off bus in Paris
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Museum of Magic
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Foyer of the Museum of Magic
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There are many, many flower stalls in Paris, I assume for the Parisienne’s to fill the flower boxes on their tiny balconies
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The Eiffel Tower
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The Eiffel Tower again….
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Sorry, and again…
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The lift on the way up the tower, we didn’t get to climb the stairs of this tower
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Les Invalides and the military training fields (now just parklands) from the Eiffel Tower
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The view from the tower was amazing
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On the Eiffel Tower, it was very windy
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The illumination show of the Eiffel Tower
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The distance and direction to Sydney from the top of the Eiffel Tower
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On the way down in the lift
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DB enjoys a complimentary Limoncello after our expensive dinner, he could have had mine as well but thought he might get drunk so decided not to drink it.