Shopping on Our Last Day in Paris

For our last day, we wanted to go to the first department store ever.  Department stores were invented in Paris, and Le Bon Marche was the first one.  It was huge and had amazingly beautiful things.

We had a grand time shopping for food items for our kiddos and friends in the Epicure Center. If we had more room in our carry-ons we would have bought even more, but we were worried about space and weight for our upcoming EasyJet flight.

Then we headed up to Montmartre and Sacre-Coeur for some sight seeing and lunch before heading to the airport.  No metro stations are very close because it is a small mountain.  When we got as close as we could, we got off the train deep underground and had to walk up stone stairs in a spiral for a long, long time. Outside the metro, there was much more of the mountain ahead of us.

The climb was prodigious, but the view was worth it. Although about half way up, Hannah was having her doubts.

Lunch in the artists square.

More street musicians. Most were very, very good. We were serenaded by this lovely cello as we began our descent back to the metro.

From there, the airport.