Paris

We made the call to not do the walking tour last night for several reasons.
- We have done Paris well and will be re seeing a lot.
- We walk at least 10-15km a day. Our feet and bodies are SORE.
- it’s 4km to starting point followed by 3 hours of walking. Nope.
We decided to go to the army museum instead which we LOVED. 20/10.
Even Will keeps asking me if I’ve given them a 5 star review yet 😆

It was 14€ which was terrific. We spent hours there and skipped a whole bunch of it. It’s huuuuuuuuuge.
First section was old knights armor, swords. Canons etc. So cool and so unbelievable just how many they have. They had displays which went on and on and on but also this hallway with canons in it but on the other side was glass showing their storage collection. They had all the armors facing the window so it was like walking past an army which was so so cool.
Cool will be used a lot to describe today.
The oldest we found was from 1100.
You see stuff like this and get a date like 1609 and stick your nose up at it for being so recent 😆😆
The next section was the world wars. Best displace I’ve seen. It had every country represented with their uniforms and stuff.
I loved in the WW2 section that they had a Swastika flag. I love that it didn’t get burnt and is on display and that someone hasn’t complained its offensive. We noted in Germany their lack of ww2 museums because they don’t want to be seen as promoting or praising.
I think this museum did it all really well - It was all factual.
It also had some of his stuff which was noteworthy.
It also had a quick woman’s section which I really enjoyed for WW2. I like when it’s individual stories and you get given a face to imagine alongside the story.
Interestingly 65, 068 French resistance medals were awarded. 10% of those medals were awarded to woman. Good job girls. Doing good effort from home 💪🏻
Lots of weapons, personal belongings, art and uniforms were the main contents.

Next was the French resistance part which I think if you were French would be more interesting.
We skipped a lot of this part.
We then went into the chapel to see Napoleons tomb.
His older brother Joseph and Son also are buried there.
His tomb was so ridiculous. Big center piece in the middle. So extra.

Then onto Napoleon and King Louis’s XIV + XV section. Bit bored in this bit too. We were spoilt and had seen too many thing by this point. Napoleons horse had been taxidermied though so I like that bit.

We walked home.
On the way a man started yelling and full tackled another man to the ground maybe 20 meters in front of us and kept screaming at him.
Will just kept walking towards it.
“What the hell are you doing?????
Why are you walking towards that????”
So many cops near by because we think it’s parliament near by - literally 2 cops every corner.
They took their sweet ass time responding to the fuss. My only thinking is maybe they hesitate in case they are worried it’s a decoy for something for sinister. Cause I did expect a bit of a quicker response to the yelling and violence..
We think maybe the guy stole something from the fancy shop and it was a citizens arrest?

Either way I don’t speak French, i don’t know what’s happening, so I crossed the street like a sensible person with some self preservation. Will had to be yelled at by me to do so.

I’m in the bath and we absolutely need to do washing but are done for the day so will wear dirty undies to Dijon and do tomorrow 😆😆

Will wanted Mexican for dinner so we went to a random burrito shop.
Keen to move on from Paris but I will miss this hotel. It’s probably our best standard until we get to London lol.
Have to pay tomorrow though so we will see the damage then 😬

OH.
3 days in a row we have put the do not disturb sign on the door and 3 days that has been ignored.
😑
Today we came back mid clean and she couldn’t speak English but was hesitant to let us in.
Excuse me but you shouldn’t even be in here gtfo.
I find it rude actually. That sign is universal in meaning. No not ignore. I might have hidden my stuff better and moved my dirty undies off the floor. 😒Leggi altro