Saturday, August 11 – Montmartre

So, I spent today with my two roommates – Heather and Jen. Heather is the one I met last night and Jen is the other one – she’s a yogi, was just coming from a long yoga festival thing in Lyon, goes to art school, cool stuff like that.

Anyways, Jen and I got up super early to do yoga in the park, but the park was closed, so we walked to Monoprix to get breakfast, but it was also closed, we ended up finding cheap coffee and baguette and stealing (not really) nutella from the hostel’s free food shelf, yay.

Then we collected Heather and went off to see the Catacombs, but the line was absurdly long, so we decided to go another day and went off to Monmartre (stopping through Pigalle, of course) We started with the Moulin Rouge and then went up towards more actual windmills and passed La Café de Deux Moulins!!!! That is the place where Amelie works in the movie. It was an exciting moment for me, and completely incomprehensible to the other two.

Then we saw some windmills, including the one in the big famous Renoir painting. And more wandering, and sitting in parks, until we finally arrived at Sacre Coeur!

We wandered through the church, which is big and beautiful, but then we went to the crypts (which I usually don’t do, because it costs money). However, it was totally worth it – lots of more beautiful  churchy things, a tiny chapel, a memorial to members lost in WWI and it was really dramatic because it was so dark and suddenly there were these little pockets of light in the chapel places.

Then we wandered though Montmartre a little bit, looking at galleries and touristy shops. There was a mime, and we ended up getting crepes for dinner (well, they did, I waited until the hostel, where I still had my rice concoction waiting for me)

Then I separated from the others to go to sleep, and they went off to drink wine at the Eiffel Tower. Yay for a good day!