Paris in the Spring time!

We arrived in Paris in the Spring - a beautiful time to see this city for the first time - blue skies, lovely weather, blossoming trees and mating pidgeons!! (A spectacle that is surprisingly entertaining - at least for Jason). We enjoyed our short stay and did lots of sight-seeing and walking! Walking is a great, cheap way to see the city and to walk off all the pain au chocolats, glacès and nutella crèpes we ate! On our first day we walked from our hostel in Monmatre to the Sacrè Coeur to the Louvre and then onto the Eiffel Tower! Needless to say, we caught the Metro home that day! We also visited the Musèe D'Orsay and the Louvre and felt we walked the length and breadth of Paris in those two museums alone! We were very good and got to the Louvre early to avoid the long que - although a lot of good that did as they were late in opening it up. While we waited in the que we entertained ourselves by making up conversations of the Security Staff who were walking around looking very impotant but not seemingly doing too much!
(Read with a strong French accent)
Jean-Pierre: Jacques! I hive lost zee key to zee Louvre!
Jacques: Mon Dieu Jean-Pierre! Where deed you last zee it?
Jean-Pierre: Ah! It was vhen I vas buying a croissant! Quick! To the croissant stand!
Jacques: Oui! Oui!

Our commentary seemed to amuse some of our fellow foreign tourists lining up with us.

We also walked along the banks of the Seine, visited Notre Dame du Paris and the Botanical Gardens. We saw a lot of Monmatre and found a charming square near the Sacrè Coeur called Place du Tertre - here artists were painting scenes of Paris as well as tourist portraits, surrounded by many cafes, bistros and restaurants! We visited this square several times during our stay.

Our first visit to the Sacrè Coeur was amazing as we arrived early on Easter Monday morning, when there were hardly any tourists around. After we'd looked at the view of Paris, we made our way inside to be greeted by the etheral sounds of a small choir of nuns singing hymns in French. It was such an emotional experience to walk around this beautiful Basilica, admirering the gold mozaics with these heavenly voices reverberating off the cavernous ceilings uplifted in praise!

Streets of Monmatre


Views around Sacrè Coeur



Views around Paris







Jo infront of the Venus De Milo in the Louvre



The back of Notre Dame