Been a long time between blogs. We have been busy walking around Paris, despite the wet weather.
Yesterday we walked to the Notre Dame Cathedral. On the way, we went through Rue de Rosiers - full of Jewish shops - where we picked up a kosher Shawarma. At the Cathedral, we climbed to the top (lovely view of Paris as well as the grotesques and gargoyles on top) as well as the inside of the Cathedral. Then we visited the Grand Mosque de Paris - built in 1926 and quite beautiful - especially on the inside, with its courtyards.
Today we walked to the Louvre quite early - beat the long queues. First up we visited the Mona Lisa followed by the history of the Louvre - it commenced as a fort. We saw a few other paintings and admired the building itself. A more exhausting viewing will have to wait for another time.
By early afternoon, after lunch at the restaurant, we hopped on a train to the beginning of Avenue des Champs El
ysees where we strolled in the rain and did some shopping (finally got the watches we wanted), viewed the Arc and then had a coffee (+ pizza + ice cream).On our way to the Louvre we accidentally came across what seemed to be an huge underground shopping centre Forum Les Halles. We returned to it to see if we could pick up some boots for Jumanah. Unfortunately no but as we made our way back home, we came across a very small shoe shop in Les Halles.
We stopped off at a Kebab place for some nan kebabs takeaway for dinner whilst we packed and prepared for the trip to the airport in the morning.
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