Today we met some people from Switzerland and the University of Illinois-Champagne in Montmartre, the traditional bohemian art district famous for the Sacre-Coeur church and the Moulin Rouge. We spent the afternoon just walking around the neighborhood, with some pit stops for a crêpe and to buy myself a fake Burberry scarf. I’ve never owed a scarf before so I had to have Lauren tie it for me, but it’s so damn cold it’s definitely worth the 9€ that I spent for it.
The Sacre-Coeur is perched at the top of a massive hill that overlooks all of Paris. If it hadn’t been such a rainy and cloudy day, the view would have been amazing. Even through the fog you could see the Pompidou Center to the South (where Rue Quincampoix is), La Tour Montparnasse further South than that, and the Eiffel Tour and Les Invalides to the West. The inside of the church was a traditional basilica style, but there was a no-photography rule so no pictures, sorry. Montmartre is a mix between a bohemian artisan paradise and Paris’s red-light district. There were a ton of artists painting pictures or making caricatures in the city squares, and then on the street fronts were places like La Diva or Le Moulin Rouge.
Today we met some people from Switzerland and the University of Illinois-Champagne in Montmartre, the traditional bohemian art district famous for the Sacre-Coeur church and the Moulin Rouge. We spent the afternoon just walking around the neighborhood, with some pit stops for a crêpe and to buy myself a fake Burberry scarf. I’ve never owed a scarf before so I had to have Lauren tie it for me, but it’s so damn cold it’s definitely worth the 9€ that I spent for it. 
The Sacre-Coeur is perched at the top of a massive hill that overlooks all of Paris. If it hadn’t been such a rainy and cloudy day, the view would have been amazing. Even through the fog you could see the Pompidou Center to the South (where Rue Quincampoix is), La Tour Montparnasse further South than that, and the Eiffel Tour and Les Invalides to the West. The inside of the church was a traditional basilica style, but there was a no-photography rule so no pictures, sorry. Montmartre is a mix between a bohemian artisan paradise and Paris’s red-light district. There were a ton of artists painting pictures or making caricatures in the city squares, and then on the street fronts were places like La Diva or Le Moulin Rouge.
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