Day 10 – New Years Day
The benefit of a low-key New Years Eve was that we were ready for fun New Years Day. This was Beth’s chance to see Montmartre – what would prove to be her favourite neighbourhood in Pairs. We wandered around the narrow streets and discovered that Montmartre is blessed with an inordinately high number of bistros and bakeries relative to other areas of Paris. We lined up at the bakery and Brent got some kind of plum pastry thingy.
Montmartre is the home of Sacre Coeur which is, as far as one can tell from the outside, a behemoth of a church. Its architechturally interesting but it was really difficult to understand why there were so many people there. After the morning in Montmartre, we made our way to the Champs D’Elysees and had a long boozy lunch in one of the bistros on the side streets. After that, we inspected the Arch de Triomphe and then the Eiffel Tower. We’ve never seen so many champagne corks discarded on the ground. After braving all that, we treated ourselves to our daily hot chocolate on a bistro’s patio and headed back to our hotel.
