It is shaping up to be a very unusual trip to Paris. We focused our attention on famous Paris cemeteries (Montparnasse and Père Lachaise), and Saint-Denis is in essence a cemetery for French kings. It is definitely not your typical touristy Paris.
Monday, July 7 – Père Lachaise Cemetery
Tuesday, July 8 – Basilique royale de Saint-Denis
Monday, July 7 2014
Hour-by-hour
[20 vs. 4] [original draft written on 7/10 THUR at 10:05 in Beaugency]
Apparently we are waking up a little bit earlier every morning. Yesterday camera smashed against kitchen floor around 12 noon. Today – Monday – first pictures about our electrical problems.
10:53 Electrical problem – one of the fuses blown – now kitchen has no light . I have to call out French hosts over Skype. They said technitin will pay us a visit, and we do not have to ah home.
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| Good morning! There are light in the kitchen. First problem to solve today – how to open one of these fuse boxes? | On no! These fuses are not re-settable. When they gone, you have to buy a new ones. Where one buys some fuses in Paris? |
Free Wi-Fi in some public parks. On the way to Père Lachaise Cemetery we stopped at a public park (Square de la Roquette) to wash our fruits, and discovered that there is free Wi-Fi in there. Apparently that is a common thing in public parks in Paris.
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| Pleasant walk from our apartment through Rue de la Roquette to Père Lachaise Cemetery | 12:33 Entrance to Père Lachaise Cemetery. It is free, and it is open from 8H to18H |
12:30 – 16:30 Trip to Père Lachaise Cemetery
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| (B) Here is where famous graves are located. Prepare to spend several hours in this treasure hunt. All graves are equal, but some graves are more famous than the others.
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| <—- (A) Here s a list of “considered-to-be-famous-graves” |
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| TEXT 01 | For us this name is recognizable as a wife of Russian poet Sergei Yesenin who was 18 years her junior. His life mysteriously ended in Christmas days of 1925 in Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. |
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Tombs of Bizet, Balzac, Apollinaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf, Modigliani, Auguste Comte, Vincenzo Bellini (not in the guide), Gioachino Rossini (crypt only), Camille Pissarro.
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This took us almost half a day (4 hours)
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Walk across Paris – Place de Voses – Mares (using freeNav APP) to a closed vegan place.
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Marker where Henry IV was assassinated – 11 Rue de la Ferronnerie
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Supper at Saveurs Végét’Halles instead (MasterCard)
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Walk back home along the Seine river
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Back home at 22:38
Tuesday, July 8 2014
Hour-by-hour
[19 vs.5]
Last full day in Paris
Trip to Saint Denis
Long metro trip on line 13
Market day at Saint Denis – madhouse with peole of all colors and shapes
Entrance to the church is free
Crypt tickets are €7.50
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17:00 Trip back to Cathedédrale Alexandre Nevsky de Paris (open Tue, Fri and Sun from 15 to 17)
Eat at Hippopotamus (18:00) – AmEx
Walk along Champs-Élysées
10 min line to get to Louis Vuitton
Metro trip on line 1 to Bastille
Back home at 21H to watch Brazil vs. Germany (1:7)
Navigate through the List
- 07-04 First Steps in Paris (Friday, July 4, 2014) (2014/07/04)
- 07-05 Paris - View from a sharp angle (July 5-6, 2014) (2014/07/05)
- 07-07 Paris - Père Lachaise and Saint Denis (July 7-8, 2014) (2014/07/07)
- 07-09 From Paris to Beaugency [bo:zhensi:] (Wednesday, July 09, 2014) (2014/07/09)
- 07-10 Beaugency to Uzerche (Thursday, July 10, 2014) (2014/07/10)
- 07-11 Uzerche to Montignac and to Sarlat (Friday, July 11, 2014) (2014/07/11)
- 07-12 Sarlat, Rocamadour, Figeac and Bouziès (Saturday, July 12, 2014) (2014/07/12)
- 07-13 From Bouziès to Albi (Sunday, July 13 2014) (2014/07/13)
- 07-14 From Albi to Toulouse and to Auch (Monday, July 14 2014) (2014/07/14)
- 07-15 From Auch to Lupiac (birthplace of D'Artagnan) to Tabres (2014/07/15)
- 07-16 From Tabres into Spain and Pyrenees (2014/07/16)
- 07-17 Reaching for the highest point in Pyrenees (2014/07/17)
- 07-18 Monastery in Yesa, Navarra (Spain) (2014/07/18)
- 07-19 Back to France - Busy Biarritz (2014/07/19)
- 07-20 SUN - Bordeaux - city with large squares (2014/07/20)
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