It was sad to say goodbye to Fontainebleau this morning. But we had to continue to the next part of our visit - Paris, the city of beauty, the city of love.
With our goodbyes to Fontainebleau done, we drove down Route A6 headed to Paris...
Over the last few days, I developed an unspeakable fondness for Fonty - for its medieval charms, its beauty and calmness...
Indeed the journey to Fonty was a kind of self-discovery, a journey into myself...
But today's journey brought us back to Paris...
And we check into our hotel at Rue de Turin, in central Paris...
After a quick snack at the neighbourhood patisserie, we were good to go...
There's some sweetness about Paris that you can find the patisserie...
Our next stop was the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre hill. So we headed to Saint-Lazare metro station from where we headed to the Abbesses metro station...
We reached the Pigalle district in the 9th Arrondissement of Paris...
That's where we saw La Pain Quotidien - The Daily Bread, right on the Rue Lepic... Neeti and I have fond memories of LPQ in Mumbai...
From Rue Lepic, we walked down to Boulevard de Clichy from where we were to board the Petit Train de Montmartre to take us right up to Basilique du Sacré-Cœur,..
Pigalle is a tourist district, with Moulin Rouge as a major attraction. Pigalle was also home to a number of artists - Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Maurice Neumont and Andre Breton, Pigalle is also home to Espace Dalí, a permanent exhibition devoted to Salvador Dalí's paintings, sculptures and engravings.
The district also has a seedy reputation - Place Pigalle is home to many sex shops, theatres and adult shows. During the Second World War, Allied soldiers called the area "Pig Alley" because of its raunchy reputation. The Musée de l'érotisme (Museum of Eroticism) is also located here.
Anyone for oysters with lime?
Display of a poissonnerie along the Rue des Abbesses...
Razor clams, oyster, lobsters, octopus, shrimp, cod, salmon, cod, tuna - they had it all...
Indeed a seafood lover's paradise...
Street graffiti around the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur...
The residential area in Pigalle was nice and serene...
Live shows, lap dance, table dance, you name it, you get it here at Pigalle...
Pickles, terrines... all the lovely edible stuff...
French poultry at a Pigalle boucherie... Can I see a bresse?
Display of a fromagerie - cheese shop...
And some lovely pies...
Église Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre right next to the Abbesses metro station...
Back at Abbesses to head to Montparnasse...
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