Paris - Wednesday

 

1. Catacombs
2. Sailboats in a garden

 

 

Catacombs

 

Now the catacombs were super scary. You start off in long line around the little park near the entry. Then you walk down 82 or so steps to be under the city of Paris inside the tunnels of the old limestone mines.

 

The tunnels go for 100s of kilometres but we walked through them for about 20 minutes.

 

Why walk through tunnels you may say? Because about 250 years ago the Paris cemetery got full so the King ordered all the bones and skulls from every tomb to be moved to the limestone mines which became the Catacombs.

 

The tunnels were dark, creepy and filled with bones along the walls. when I close my eyes now I imagine a headstone with skulls surrounding it and the little heart shape made of skulls right above it. It creeped me.

 

I am glad to be out of there now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sailboats in the Garden

We walked through the Luxembourg gardens.

Big.

 

 

 

The entrance to the garden

 

 

 

Actually we walked on a gravel path which runs through the gardens. We walked all the way from one end to the other end near the large building that dad says is a palace. It is a copy of a palace in Florence that Henry the fourths wife (who came from Florence) liked so much that she copied it.

In front of the palace was a circle pond about bigger than I could throw a ball across. A lot bigger.

Right outside the pond was a man renting sailboats for 3 Euros per half an hour. The boats had flags of different countries on their sails. THere were a few boats on teh top of his table and you could choose which one you wanted. I didn't have a lot of choice. I chose Brazil and called it the "Brazilian Beauty". ZOe chose a Chinese flag which she called "CN China".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You also got a bamboo stick which you would use to push the boat toward the middle of the pond. THe boats sails would then catch the wind and they would fly across the seas which i like to say in a Scottish accent.

 

The boats didn't seem able to tip over. They always stayed upright even though my boat's sail was stuck on the water for a while, it righted itself after its flopping experience.

 

 

That's all for now

 

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