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Today was our BIGGEST day YET.
We met at the bakery at République for breakfast croissants and pain au chocolat. YUM. We sort of wanted to go the the Champs Elysses again, but some museums over there were closed on Mondays so we decided to visit Montmartre instead.
SO, we hopped in a metro out to Montmartre and wandered around for a while trying to find our way up the hill to the big church, Sacre Coeur. The church was nice, but the view from the top was really interesting. As it was approaching coffee-o-clock, we stopped for espresso and cakes. YUM.
Suddenly I realised (with the help of LP) that there was a Dali museum in Montmartre. Christina suddenly got sparkly eyed and so we had to go, so we wandered around a bit more to find it. The museum was pretty good, a small gallery with mostly sketches and sculptures, it was a bit busy for a really relaxed look, but it was worth seeing and pretty cheap. Probably the best bit was the Dali quotes on the walls. He was clearly completely mad and totally awesome.
NEXT, Lomography Shop Paris! I've wanted to go to a lomography shop for ages and finally we were able to go to the Paris gallery store. I was very relieved to find it open since lots of things were closed most of the day. They had ALL the fun cameras and films and things. I bought some interesting film and an awesome case for MY Diana mini camera. (Chrissy has claimed the camera AND the case. So that's that).
Lisa and I want Lomo LCA+ cameras but they're too expensive! (250eu!!)
NOW was the time for walks in the Bastille area. We somehow decided to walk because it wasn't too far and because the big train stations are a bit tiring to figure out all the time (Gare du Nord is closest to the Lomography shop). So we walked to République and then got a metro two stops. Suddenly it became clear that it was lunchtime and we quickly stopped to eat. After food, we started walking around an "area of interest" according to LP, in the first street we found a cool contemporary art gallery, lots of great windows, and a little cute clothes shop where the shop assistant / designer was actually sewing while looking after the shop. Sometimes Paris is just too cool. As it got darker, we found more shops and more people came out to walk around. It was super fun running around all the cool shops.
Eventually we ended up at the Pompidou Centre and took lots of cool photos.
Dinner was in two parts -- first, Crepes, second, super cheap pizza, salad and wine from a touristy sort of Italian restaurant. I ate too much cheese.
It was basically a super rad day. We three are an awesome travel team!
