ok, this definitely has to be the last post of this! i will return to normal designy posts soon - i have lots to share! i hope you have enjoyed reading about my travels though - i am hoping that writing it all down will mean i remember it all!

so where i left it last time, i had just had a huge day at versailles. the next day, i went to montmartre.

i was originally going to go to the marche aux puces st-ouen de clignancourt but the whole not-being-able-to-speak-french thing threw that idea off because i figured i would not be able to buy anything or would get ripped off. so i skipped that part - i'll go next time, once i've learned french *wink*

instead, i started my day off at sacre coeur. oh how i love that place - it's so cool and weird-looking. the only one thing that was a bit of a negative are the people hanging around the gardens below the cathedral trying to tie string around your wrist (they then try to make you pay for it). thankfully, i had been warned, and politely told them that i neither spoke french nor english! i figured this would throw them off! despite this, it is still one of my favourite places in paris.



i climbed up another 300 steps to get to the top of the cathedral. it was so worth it - though it was rather treacherous getting up there, and definitely not for anyone especially large (either tall or wide), because it's quite tight. but the view was worth it.







after going inside the cathedral and also down to the lower levels, i then went to explore montmartre. i had an amazing tarte tartin from one of the boulangeries in the town, walked through the art markets (i was hoping to buy something, but nothing jumped out at me), and wandered through other pokey little shops up there. after going and buying some lovely perfume in fragonard, i headed back to the metro... next stop, cite

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