We walked out and the Sacre Coeur was peeking through at the end of the street. When we got to the end of the street, we could finally see the cathedral in it's entirety. It was massive! And there were sooo many stairs to climb to get to the top. We began the trek.
There were so many scam people there. I don't mind the guys on the road and at these tourist places that sell stuff and aren't pushy about it, I actually quite like looking at their stuff. It's the ones that won't leave you alone that really bug me. Especially these guys that will grab you by the arm and start braiding a bracelet on there, without asking. Then once they are done you're expected to pay for it! We watched one of these guys grab a little girl by the arm and pull her over to try and braid on a bracelet! Luckily her mum pulled her away, but the poor girl looked really scared. And there are these girls wandering around with 'petitions', that will stand right in front of you and follow you trying to get you to sign the things. I really feel like these people ruin some of the experience of seeing all these amazing things.
Once we got to the top of the stairs, we were greeted with the most beautiful view of Paris! From the top of the hill you could see for miles and it was just wonderful! We went into the catherderal and it was really beautiful! There were so many people there though. And we were pretty shocked that there was a gift shop inside the church! I think that's pretty bad! But it was really beautiful, we walked around for a while looking at everything. It wasn't the best cathedral we have been into, but was still beautiful nonetheless.
Once we were done with the cathedral we walked back down the stairs to look for something cold to drink, it was so hot! We found a cafe and had an iced coffee. So far we weren't too impressed with Montmarte, as it seemed that it was only that one busy street and the cathedral. However after a quick look on the internet we decided to walk to artists square. We began the walk and were unhappy to see that it was back up another lot of steeper stairs! It was a rough climb.
Once we made it into artists square, it all felt worth it. The atmosphere was amazing, there were so many people and so many artists selling their incredible art!
There were painters sitting in the square set up with their canvases painting away! And artists who were drawing peoples portraits on the side of the road. I wish we could have had ours done! They were pretty expensive though, and we don't really have anywhere to carry them. They were so well done!
We looked around the square for ages taking in all the art. I absolutely loved it, and was so glad that we had found it! Montmarte had definitely redeemed itself.
From there we decided to try and walk to the Moulin Rouge building, as it wasn't that far away. We started getting further away from Montmarte, and further into an area that was really just scary. We never made it to Moulin Rouge, as we got lost and weren't comfortable in this area that we had ended up in. So we made our way back to the station and headed home. It had been a really long day, we only made it back around 6:30, so we were pretty exhausted! Dinner time came around and we were again served a delicious Korean meal! I think this one was even better than the first night!
I can't believe how lucky we were to find this place. It's so nice! We are really enjoying it here.
Today the weather wasn't great, and we weren't really feeling up to much so we had a lazy day and read and walked to the grocery store and just stayed in our neighbourhood. It was nice to relax. 😊
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