Once we made it through the groups of men selling cheap Paris souvenirs, we found ourselves somewhat overwhelmed by the number of vendors. There was so much to see and some truly gorgeous pieces. To be honest, I was somewhat disappointed by the prices as everything that we saw was a lot more than we wanted to spend. I think I had envisioned more of a carboot kind of set up instead of well-coiffed vendors sucking back champagne and eating cheese and crackers at 11:00 am.
We fueled up with some tasty sandwiches and headed to Sacre Coeur, which neither of us had ever seen.
We happened across the cafe from Amelie on the walk down from Sacre Coeur. Lee had no idea why I was taking a picture of the cafe as he has yet to see the movie (I am working on that as it is one of my favorite movies and two Michael Sowa prints hang above our couch because of the film).
As Lee was such a good sport to go antiquing with me, I finally relented and agreed to try out the Velib scheme. I am not the most confident of bikers and one needs to be slightly agressive on the busy Parisian roads. I had a bit of a Sarah snit/panic attack when Lee got too far ahead and a taxi cab got a little too close. But I finally put my big girl face on, sucked it up, and slowly got into the swing of things. The scheme itself is pretty fantastic way to explore the city. We only paid 1 euro and were able to use the bikes for a 24-hour period.
Unfortunately neither of us looked this good on the bikes, ha ha:
From the Sartorialist
We popped back to the Louvre on the way back to our hotel to capture a few shots in the daylight.
There was a small church next to our hotel and I couldn't understand why Lee was taking pictures of it. When we downloaded them I figured out why.
That ball must have been placed there! It made me laugh anyways!
We went out for a late birthday meal for Lee on Ile-St-Louis and finished off the evening with a visit to Notre Dame.
1 comment:
Gorgeous pictures! Jealous! :)
Robbo
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