Today we queued for two hours in the heat to see the famous Catacombs of Paris. Not being one for queuing or for tight dark places, this could have gone horribly wrong for me, but instead it was one of the highlights of our visit to France. It is so amazing the effort that the workers went to to arrange the bones in their geometrical resting places, and all so long ago.
After emerging into the light we went to Sacre Coeur and Montmartre. I had not been there even though I had visited Paris several times over the years. I was not disappointed.
We caught a bus back to the apartment at the end of the day, and made ourselves get changed and go out to hear the Jazz that night. We had tea at a Greek restaurant at Les Halles and then listened to the Yonathan Arichai Quintet at the Sunset Jazz Club. It was very technical jazz, not really our favourite, but it was good to say we had done it.
We arrived back at the apartment around midnight and went past the memorial to Diana, which was covered with tributes. It is at the Place de l'Alma, near the bridge and tunnel. The Flame of Liberty that was already there as a present from the USA as a thank you for the restoration work on the statue of liberty in New York, has become a makeshift memorial to the princess. She died there exactly nineteen years before.
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