We spend our first day wandering around Montmartre. Sacre Coeur is just as splendid as usual with it's beautiful white domes standing out on the Paris skyline. We can even see it from our hotel room half and hour away near CHG Airport.
We went to see the Artist's market and watch them paint. It is amazing to see so much talent and variety. The Artists that are doing Portraits as people walk around are very interesting to watch.
It is so full of tourists that we soon head to the quieter streets and just walk and enjoy being in Paris. We had two excellent espresso coffees so as to use the toilets which we forgot are few and far between. You don't have to go far to pay what locals pay as we had two coffee's for less than one up where the tourists are.
This part of Paris is full of steps and you are either going up or down.
We just had to have a try of some cakes in the window this is what traveling is all about...watch our waist line.
Because we are just going up and down streets at random we discover areas with different characters. Just beside Montmartre is an area dominated by African immigrants. Weddings must be their thing because there is shop after shop dedicated to wedding clothes. In one window along with the wedding dresses there was a self rocking cribb for the baby of the bride we guess!
The general buildings in the are are very impressive.
Here is a building with louvers on the end that show a face when viewed from the right angle.
We even bump into one of the original old gates to the city, Porte St Denis.
After returning to our hotel at Roissy, we take another walk to discover some of the cute village where we have dinner each night. Tonight it is Pizza. It is already decided that tomorrow it will be Crepes.
Our second day takes us back into town and to the Latin Quarter. We re-walk these lanes and streets around the Sorbonne University and the Pantheon. This is area is full of students and stores that students need. Art shops and Crêperies and all types of national food restaurants are here.
We also walk along the Seine as you can never be tied of doing that.
It takes us a long time to rediscover Shakespeare Bookshop. It is a English bookshop (mainly used books) and is also a great resource for information (in English) for what is going on in town, places to live, places to eat etc.
In amongst the old neighbourhood springs up new super modern building like this new Hotel built by the Arabs.
