slept well and Tiff was feeling even worse than yesterday. We slept in
till almost noon and did not leave the hotel till 2pm.
When we did leave we headed back towards Notre Dame to see more of
it's island and the "Left Bank". The first thing we stopped at was
"the concierge" or the prison. It was pretty cool honestly their sells
were hotel rooms compared to Alcatraz. In fact the conceirge was
orginally a palace. Then when it became a court a small wing was
turned into a prison so that the prisoners would be closer to the
judges so that they could hear their confessions (torture induced)
prior to the revolution. After the revolution it held those that would
be sent to the guillotine including Marie Antoinette.
Next we took a stroll through the curvy narrow streets of the left
bank as recommended by our Rich Steves guide book. One of the stops
was St Sulpice, the church from the Da Vinci code where Silas kills
the nun. Anyway it was the best discription we have seen, in many
languages, telling that the line on the floor does not correspond to
the Prime Meridan that the Paris Observatory has marked throughout the
city it is a meridan but not the Rose Line. The tell about how several
churches around the world have the same lines to track the sun
throughout the year. It was a cool church though, and still active
they were holding services so in the back so we could not go there.
Finally after eating dinner we took the Metro back to the Eiffel
Tower. It was cloudy and misty but we had not gone to the top yet. So
we bought our tickets, rode up and you couldn't see anything... we
were in a cloud. We went back down the second level which is still
377' high and took lots of pictures. It is just amazing feat of
engineering for the 18th century.
That was it for the day. Tiff felt much better by days end.
M&T
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