Marseille to Paris, and back home to Josselin.

It’s about 750kms to Paris and the excellent French TGV took us there in three and a quarter hours. You’d probably spend that long at the airport just waiting to get through security 😀

We checked into the hotel and found a nearby pub for dinner. https://www.brasserie-ernest.com/
It was an interesting place, packed full of young Parisians having their Friday night drinks and playing loud ’70s and ’80s music like T. Rex and A-ha.
These were the best fish and chips I’ve had for a long time.

We had about half a day in Paris so we spent some time checking up on Notre Dame, visited the bouquinistes along the Seine and wandering about the left bank near the Sorbonne, walking back to Montparnasse via the Jardin de Luxembourg.

The metro station we popped out at was quite old school. Cité station under the Île de la Cité, opened in 1910.

Poor old Notre-Dame is still very much a work in progress. There’s a lot of information about the rebuild along here. They’ve done a huge amount in the five years since the fire.

How they are restoring the gargoyles and etc.

Pretty sure these gargoyles are replacements.

We were last here about a week before the fire, with Sue and Jared.

We visited a couple of churches on the left bank, this was Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre which was built in the 12th century and is one of the city’s oldest religious buildings.

The Sorbonne. I’d love to study there. May have left my run too late though!

The French Pantheon was a copy of the one in Rome. Built 1758-1790 so a lot younger.

Luxembourg palace in the Jardin de Luxembourg.

We had a cup of tea and watched these guys playing pétanque. Very peaceful.

It’s still a bit autumnal here but it was fairly cold, about 10°.

On the way back to the Gare we walked past this Crêperie de Josselin. This is on the rue de Rennes in Paris and there are a whole lot of Breton crêperies.

I was taken aback at the price of snails in Paris, €19 for a dozen!

That afternoon we took the train and bus back to Josselin arriving home about 8:30. Its nice to be back, it’s fun traveling around but it’s good to stop after a while too. It was a memorable trip down south and I’m very glad we did it.

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