Paris - Notre Dame

Wednesday – Stayed in bed a little longer and managed to make it to breakfast by 10:30. A tasty meal from the hotel. Our tiny bathroom does not allow more than one person to use it at a time, so making it to breakfast was an achievement. Our first destination today was to walk to FNAC (a French multinational retail chain) to order a book for Hector (Sylvie’s great nephew) for Christmas, and then we met with Asidine, Sylvie’s nephew, for lunch at the Brasserie Pastis. Following lunch, and with directions from Asidine, we walked the four kilometers to Notre Dame cathedral. The mobile Google maps are hopeless and didn’t seem to know where to go and we walked through endless laneways with limited success. Reconstruction on the cathedral after the destructive fire of 15 April 2019 is slow but a massive undertaking. After spending half an hour viewing the cathedral works and progress photos, we crossed the Seine to the Latin Quarter and a very small Christmas market, but the rain started to fall and became heavier so we continued apace to the famous Rue Cremieux with its multi coloured facades. Now a long four kilometer walk back to the hotel, completing 20,000 steps today. For dinner we went back to the same restaurant as last night. Sylvie had fish and I a fat tasty hamburger.Read more