Today a late start, we slept in a little, had a late breakfast and headed off to see a few of the well known monuments such as the Catacombs, Acadame Nationale of Musique, the Pantheon and Notre Dame. While we were working out what sites to see we had talked about the Paris Catacombs, and Braedon had kept talking about seeing them.  So first stop was the Paris Catacombs.

On the way  Musique is an theatre for opera and is located right outside Opera station - this was on the way to the Catacombs, we took some pics but didn't go inside.  

The Paris catacombs were originally limestone quarries, mined for the construction of Paris' most famous buildings and bridges. From the late 1700s the quarries were used to house bodies moved here from the overcrowded cemeteries of Paris. The bones of exhumed bodies were stacked neatly in various rooms creating kilometers of walls composed entirely of human remains. Read more about the catacombs here

 After walking down a narrow staircase of 19 metres into the darkness  and after passing through a long and twisting hallway of mortared stone, we find ourselves  before a sculpture that existed from a time before this part of the mines became an ossuary, a model of France's Port-Mahon fortress created by a former Quarry Inspector.

We must have walked about a km - and all the way on both sides and lots of other tunnels off to different directions there were the BONES stacked on top of one another in almost symetrical order. So here are some pics


Hmm a very gruesome morning but Braedon enjoyed himself and we also found it quite interesting.  The hard part was climbing the 46 odd steps up the staircase to flat ground again.


The Pantheon was next, a building in the Latin Quarter - many distinguished French citizens are buried here. This is us outside the Pantheon.  Took lots of photos and to many to upload.   


We walked down the Boulevard Saint-Michel which is one of the two major streets in the Latin Quarter of Paris.As the central axis of the Latin Quarter, it has long been a hotbed of student life and activism, but tourism is also a major commercial focus of the street and designer shops have gradually replaced many small bookshops. This is where I did buy two dresses which were on sale. 

We were in time for the evening service and I recorded a few minutes of it on my iphone,  to be downloaded later.

Well that was about it for our day today - a meal in a little restaurant and we were ready to hit the sack.  .