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Day 12 - Montemartre


Our last day in France had arrived, we thought  we would take a trip to Montematre on the Funicular railway the Funiculaire de Montmartre, up to the the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur  and the  other, older, church on the hill,  Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit  order of priests was founded.   
The train was only a short ride and we took some quick photos of the magnificant views across Paris...  After a quick look in the church we took a ride on the little train that takes you around Montemartre – The Montmartre "petit train" which passes through the old streets and of course  Moulin Rouge.  We also passed two separate markets and decided to pay them a visit after out train ride.
 The train took us back to where we started and we took around the first market which is located in the old town square, famous all over the world for its painters, portraitists and terraces. The square opened in 1635, and by the end of the 18th century till World War One, the whole Montmartre Boheme could been seen here:  painters, songwriters and poets.
The "carré aux artistes" (artists' square) is divided into 149 spaces, each 1m² large, which enables two painters to work in relay. We found a little pub here and ordered a few drinks while we  got  a sketch done of the three of us. 
This took about an hour and after we finished we continued down through the market and walked down  the many layer of stairs to the bottom again.
Braedon wanted to got back to the same pizza place that we had gone to on our first night so because we enjoyed the food so much we thought it was a good idea – the chef remembered us and him and Braedon greeted each other like lost friends.  He  then asked Braedon to help him cook his own pizza – so of course Braedon didn’t say no to this.  Off he went and made is own Margarite pizza which is really just a cheesy base.  He brought his onw pizza back to the table and when he had had enough – he went back to make ours.  A Florenze pizza with chicken and olives. It was a nice ending to our night. 
After this we walked back down to the Moulin Rouge to get some better photos.  We took quite a few..  It still wasn’t dark enough to get the night shots even though it was about 9.00pm. – we decided to call it a night now and caught the bus back to our hotel. 

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