After breakfast we headed out again. This time we took the metro and went to St.Paul subway station and walked from there to Musee Carnavalet. It is two mansions that house the history of Paris. It was also free today, I don’t know if it is always free or if it was because about ⅓ of the museum was closed to the public due to some work they were doing. At any rate it was still big and a bit confusion with so many rooms. One good thing also was that it was not crowded and they also had couple of lovely gardens inside the walls. From there went to Place des Vosges, which is a nice park surrounded by 36 “houses’ built in early 1600’s. Cardinal Richelieu, Moliere and Victor Hugo used to live there once upon a time.
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| Strange looking horse eyes at Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Fancy chair from the 1740's at the Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Musee Carnavalet |
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| Very big hydrangea at the Musee Carnavalet |
Victor Hugo's apartment in what used to be a hotel is now a museum. We went and did the apartment tour, which was also free. The apartment is not what it was like when he lived there, nor did it have any of his furniture there. They had arranged the rooms as some of the rooms in other places he’d lived looked like and used similar furniture which he used to have since his original is not around anymore.
We went and picked up lunch from a store and ended up taking it to the park at Place des Vosges and eating it there. We had a lot of company since the local pigeons seemed to be very hungry and bold too. But the sparrows were very quick and were able to steal lots of the morsels Jeff was feeding them. There was one particular pigeon that was actually eating right from his hand and would have probably come and stole stuff if we were not looking.
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| Victor Hugo Museum |
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| Victor Hugo Museum |
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| Victor Hugo Museum |
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| Victor Hugo Museum |
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| Victor Hugo Museum |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| A very friendly pigeon, Place des Vosges |
After our lunch we started walking towards Centre Georges Pompidou. It was not as long a walk as I thought. We also stopped at the National Archives and they have a couple of very nice gardens inside their walls too. Lots of people were having their lunches there. The Pompidou center was closed on Tuesdays so we didn’t go in. We did have a quick look around the church that was close by, Eglise Saint-Merri. It is a gothic church that was built in the 1500's.
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| National Archives |
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| National Archives gardens |
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| Hydrangea at the National Archives garden |
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| Pompidou Center |
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| Pompidou Center |
From there we started walking aimlessly towards our hotel. We went past the Burse and St. Eustace church and up Rue Montmartre and before we knew it we were around the corner of our hotel, Cosy’s Cadet. In total we walked almost 6 miles. After getting cleaned up from all the heat and dust we went for a quick drink at a bar/cafe around the corner. Then to the local grocery store to get some dinner stuff. It’s been very hot here the whole time we’ve been in Paris and we are not too hungry.
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| The Burse |
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| St. Eustace church |
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