Bonjour! Another beautiful day in Paris! A bit cloudy today and a day to carry a little jacket.
Stats from yesterday were 22,769 steps, 34 flights of stairs and 10.7 miles of walking. Phew!
Breakfast of fresh pastries and left overs from yesterday's feast from the open air market. They also had a flea market set up as well.
Out by 11 am to go get our race packet for Sunday. Yay! Then to find some sports gel and safety pins. We met a man in the store who was looking for pins as well for the race bib. His name is Ernesto and he is from Parma, Italy and this will be his third time running the la grande classique. Mary was able to speak to him in Spanish and they had a good conversation.
In the department store, like a super wal-mart, they had live music. Someone was playing the piano. It was nice to hear.
We again took metro to get to Abbesses, at the foot of Montmartre where we had a delicious meal of Paella. It was delicious and we ordered it for 4 people. We couldn't finish it. It had mussels, class, calamari, shrimp, crayfish, peas, peppers and saffron rice.
Onto Montmartre and Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Sacre Coeur. Amazing construction and such a huge basilica. We walked around and they were going to have mass at 6:30. We climbed stairs to the dome for an amazing 360 degree view of Paris. The stairway was spiral and many steps. There were signs along the way to let you know how many were left. For me it was worth the walk but we had tired legs when we were finished. Now we get to go back down those steps. The joke of the day was "oh good, more stairs.
Walked around the little village and back to metro for an early night back home. We got in around 8 pm.
Going to have a down day tomorrow to rest up for the big race on Sunday. 25,000 racers. OMG!
Une petite colline pour Vous!
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