Silver Wheel Trek: Todos juntos en Paris,

Our friend Mathieu The taxi driver took us to the airport frist thing to meet Hughie, boy were we glad to see him again. By nine o'clock that morning the strike had ended and then we could use our train passes to get around. Our little apartment in located by a large park next to the metro and it is surrounded by three schools. It is in a nice neighborhood with many families with small children. The entire street in front the the hotel apartment is blocked so the children can play safely.

We took the metro to Champ Élysee where the Christmas market was in full swing. We ate delicious grilled salmon sandwiches, churros, hot wine and tête au chocolat. We also took a stroll down the streets that have the cool stores with famous designers.

We went to the Catacombs, the Arc de Triumph the Louvre museum and everything else except the Eiffel tower and Père Lachaise cemetery so I guess we will have to go back someday.

These area left over pictures from Marsielle, this one is Yoly inside the Mucem.

Cool cart inside Mucem

Detail of cart in Mucem, that's not how to spell museum in any language i know but that's how they spell it, mayby to save money.

We got Hugh, so it all good now.

First stop tha Catacombs, I can't imagine a spookier place.

This is a detail of a shrine built in the memory of one of the bone stackers killed while building a set of stairs.

Here is a stack of bones. They decided to empty out the graveyards and put the bones in unused stone quarries that run all under the city of Paris.

The stacks are six feet high and up to thirty feet deep.

There are odd shapes.

The roof of the quarrys fall down some times. They are stabilised before streets and houses fall in most of the time. This one is supported by an arch. Most of the ones we saw were just held in place with a coat of cement.