3 October 2009 Another Good Day in Paris

This morning we started with coffee at the local cafe with the International Herald Tribune again.

Then we set out for Meg's old haunts. First we got on the Metro and went out to the school where she taught, the Lycee Turgot. See photo. We then got back on the Metro and went to the Place Gambetta neighbourhood where she lived in Paris. Much has changed since she lived in the area.

We Metro'ed home and had a great lunch at the Cafe Victor Hugo on the Place de Voges, just down from our place. The French quisine is fantastic.

We then went on a long Metro ride (45 minutes each way) to the far NE end of Paris to see the St. Denis Cathedral. It is a church where the remains of most (if not all) the kings and queens of France have been collected and entombed. It was amazingly bright inside, compared with the other old churches we have been in here and in Scotland. At the back of the church, beyond the nave, is a necropolis with their tombs (and statue likenesses with most of them). There is also a large crypt that is part of the necropolis.

We Metro'ed home again and went to the local market to pick up picnic dinner for the apartment tonight.

Tomorrow the plan is to go to Mass at the English speaking Church up by the Arc de Triumph, to meet up with Meg's cousin Rebecca again and tour the area. Doubtless there will be another great French lunch in there somewhere.