Day 9

Day 9

We began day nine a bit later than we had planned; the place we are renting is owned by an airline pilot for a US airline thus all the windows have TRUE blackout shades. Needless to say, we did not wake up until 11 as we could not see ANY daylight whatsoever. Oh well, it’s our honeymoon right?? We began the day by having a nice breakfast of a fried egg, croissant and jam and some water; all had on our cute little patio here at the apartment. Since we slept in so late, we decided to change our days around a bit.

We started out by Ile St Louis, known as the Latin Quarter; it is the island in the middle of the Seine River just east of Notre Dame. We had some ice cream, shopped a bit and just strolled. It was quite the picturesque little area in Paris.

We then walked up to Notre Dame, pictures do not do the place justice. It is truly magnificent. We have been using Rick Steves’ books for our trip and Jessie was guiding us through. The only problem is that there are five Notre Dame churches in Paris and she was reading the wrong one, we did not notice this until we had already left the cathedral. We did get to see some relics of Richard The Lion Hearted and a huge statue of Charlemagne. We also found the central point of Paris which is on the square in front of Notre Dame.

We then decided to find a little neighborhood known as Rue Cler, also a street in Paris. This area is just east of the Eiffel Tower and Rick Steves raves about it. We decided to find a café, have some wine and a small snack. We split a goat cheese salad which was absolutely amazing! We decided to head back as tonight was going to be another fancy dinner at a restaurant which is owned by family friends of friends of ours, Chris and Sacha (former NetJets coworkers). We arrived and only the husband (Mr. Allemoz) was there and his English was very broken. He was able to convey that they were fully booked but could get us in tomorrow and his wife would be there and she was much better at English, thus it was a date!

We strolled down Termes Ave in search of somewhere else to dine; we sat down at one place but could not get service to die for, so we left for another spot. We ended up at a nice cozy little café. Jessie got some eggplant and squash pasta and I had the beef Carpaccio. I had never had raw beef before but it was simply to die for, even Jessie liked it!! We were tempering ourselves  for the following night Sacha told us that their family friends’ restaurant had the best steak tartare in all of Paris. We headed back to the apartment for a relatively early night, Jess started packing/organizing the apartment while I wrote some blog stuff. We were prepping for our last day in Paris which was going to be a VERY long one.