Paris

Off to the Catacombs today, they are nearby our apartment. The Catacombs were developed as early as the 15 Century and contain a labyrinth of tunnels many metres underground. It was off putting seeing thousands of skulls and bones neatly stacked against the walls, very eerie. Then it was time to visit the Eiffel Tower but as you can see from the photos there were thousands of people lined up to go up into the tower. Some had been waiting 2 hours and thought it would be another hour before they would gain access. So we decided not to wait and made our way to the Musee Robin i.e. the Thinker and Ronin's exhibition was magnificent. The mansion in which he lived was wonderful surrounded by a lovely garden.
We decided to cook tonight because it is so expensive in Paris e.g. the previous night we paid $80 for risotto and a pizza with ½ bottle wine! There is a supermarket nearby and a street with small shops selling fruit, cheese, meat, olives etc. Just like the movies :-). The salad was lovely but the meat like a piece of leather (could have been stewing steak-my French is very rusty). The wine is good and cheap. A quite night watching a DVD, our first quite time since we left Australia.