Montmartre

Breakfast was not included in the room rate so I paid about 12 Euro every day for the buffet breakfast of juice, fruit salad, muesli, bread and jam, pain de chocolat, and cafe au lait, sometimes called cafe chaud.
I went to Front Populaire to catch a train to Abbess in Montmartre. Trains came every few minutes. Those on Line 12 weren't the newest, different Lines having different generations of rolling stock. Most stations had lots of information plus RATP staff in the ticket booth, and lots of volunteers in the final days of the Olympics and when the Paralympics began.
On a hot and sunny day, I walked up almost 300 steps to the dome of the Sacre Coeur for a great view over Paris. Lunch was a savoury crepe on the Place du Tertre crowded with artists and tourists.
At 12.00, there was an organ recital in the Eglise de Saint-PIerre de Montmartre of 24 songs mainly associated with the cabaret clubs of Montmartre.
I walked to the Moulin Rouge at Pigalle and then to La Sainte-Trinite but no organ recitals were advertised there, nor at Notre Dame de Lorette which was closed for renovation. I walked through the stylish Place Saint-Georges.Read more