Paris D2 France Catacombs and Monmarte

Stay: Villiers sur Orge - camp ground 20eu

Despite an early morning shower, we headed into Paris and thought that if it was going to continue to rain we may as well be indoors ( or underground). We arrived at 10:45am, later than our usual start, and joined the queue to visit the Catacombs. Ended up waiting an hour and a half for an hours visit.

It was however a very unique experience. We once again found ourselves underground, in what was once a limestone quarry, but was turned into a storage area for the bones from overflowing Paris cemeteries. It is said that there are remains of 6 million people here.

 After our visit it was well and truly time for lunch, so we went into the Latin Quarter and had a menu of Moules and then a pepper steak.

As it still hadn't rained we went back on the Metro to go the Sacre Coeur Basilica and Montmartre.  There were a lot of people in and out of the church. We went for a walk around inside and listened to the nuns sing. Then we sat on the steps outside and looked upon the view of Paris and were entertained by some buskers. As we sat there people were walking around trying to sell us beers!

 From here we walked to the famous square where the painters are. We were surprised that the centre of the square has been taken over by restaurant seating and there were mostly artists drawing portraits  than painters.

As the clouds were gathering we thought it was a good time to head back to Bluey and call it a day.