Yes, it was smelly. Luckily I had my scarf that I tied around my nose. I know I look tres chic.
It was disgusting. You don't even want to know what is that.
A cleaning mechanism. Yeah, I can't believe I was down in the Paris sewers. It really was a smelly tour, it was a quick and easy fun thing to do and it was included in our museum pass, so it didn't cost anything extra.
After the Sewer Tour, we headed to our new hotel for the night. Since our flight was canceled and we pushed the trip back a night, our original hotel could not accommodate us the next night, so we found a new hotel, Hotel la Perle. It was a modern, more business like hotel but was clean and the bathroom was better then the Hotel de la Tulipe.
Two little single beds pushed together.
View from our room.
After getting settled in, we walked down the street our hotel was on and ran right into St. Sulpice. This is the church that was shown in the Da Vinci Code movie. I haven't seen the movie, so it did not mean much to me. This is the pretty fountain in front of it.
St. Sulpice - The real reason to visit this church is to see and hear its organ. You can listen to an organ concert here every Sunday and even meet the organist if you want to.
Down that street is our hotel.
Inside of St. Sulpice
After visiting the church, we wandered back towards St. Germain-des-Pres and sat at Les Deux Magots for a class of wine an appetizer. We walked around some more, then decided on dinner at Cafe Louise. It was a cute little place that we happened upon. I ordered coquillettes jambon gruyère gratinées, which was pasta shells gratinated with ham and cheese. Next to the name it said (SOUVENIRS, SOUVENIRS !) and I asked our waiter what that meant. He said it was a child's dish and Souvenirs meant it reminded you of your childhood. Who knew I was ordering the kid's meal?! It was very yummy though!
This is a street by our hotel that was filled with bars and cafes. The St. Germain-des-Pres area was much more lively than the Rue Cler area we stayed the first two nights. I think I would have picked this area to stay at the whole time. We walked around and then went into a wine bar, where you pick your bottle off of the wall. The owner was very French and not very helpful. We had our wine and called it a night. The next morning we had to get up early and head out of town to Versailles!
Au revoir Paris!
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