Euro Trip Day 13
October 8th - Wednesday
We met up with Uncle D. to get a little walking tour of the city. He lead us down Canal Saint Martin towards a more diverse, less touristy part of Paris. It was amazing how high the water in the Canal was - inches from the top of the stone walls containing it, and ABOVE the sidewalk.
We stopped in Little India and had some vindaloo - yay spicy food! After that walked past some very cheap, non-touristy street vendors towards Montmartre - our destination.
Montmatre is a church up on a high (the highest maybe?) hill overlooking the city. It had wonderful views. We hung out there enjoying the view and listening to a guitar player entertaining the tourists with Beatles songs. Also observed a guy standing on a little pillar doing soccer ball tricks - including but not limited to crazy poses with the spinning ball balanced on weird parts of his body.
view from on top of the hill
A nice lady from South Carolina took this picture of us. She clearly was interested in some small talk with Americans, but I have to admit, I was so off-guard at having a stranger talk to me in an environment where I had gotten used to no one speaking a language I can understand that after she took the pictures and chatted with us I bumbled all the normal social niceties.
The look down the hill, lots of picnickers
Here is our soccer juggler doing a tantric pose or something.
Then we wandered our way back to the hotel along a different route. All quite a bit of walking, and our feet were pretty tired.
A statue at the Republique square.
We had another Paris Picnic for dinner, and didn't do a whole lot else this day.
We met up with Uncle D. to get a little walking tour of the city. He lead us down Canal Saint Martin towards a more diverse, less touristy part of Paris. It was amazing how high the water in the Canal was - inches from the top of the stone walls containing it, and ABOVE the sidewalk.
We stopped in Little India and had some vindaloo - yay spicy food! After that walked past some very cheap, non-touristy street vendors towards Montmartre - our destination.
Montmatre is a church up on a high (the highest maybe?) hill overlooking the city. It had wonderful views. We hung out there enjoying the view and listening to a guitar player entertaining the tourists with Beatles songs. Also observed a guy standing on a little pillar doing soccer ball tricks - including but not limited to crazy poses with the spinning ball balanced on weird parts of his body.
view from on top of the hill
A nice lady from South Carolina took this picture of us. She clearly was interested in some small talk with Americans, but I have to admit, I was so off-guard at having a stranger talk to me in an environment where I had gotten used to no one speaking a language I can understand that after she took the pictures and chatted with us I bumbled all the normal social niceties.
The look down the hill, lots of picnickers
Here is our soccer juggler doing a tantric pose or something.
Then we wandered our way back to the hotel along a different route. All quite a bit of walking, and our feet were pretty tired.
A statue at the Republique square.
We had another Paris Picnic for dinner, and didn't do a whole lot else this day.