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Sacre Coeur
For some reason, we’ve had problems navigating up to Sacre Couer
We usually walk up the Rue Lepic, past Amelie’s Café des Deux Moulins
Several Blocks up the hill, go left (instead of right)
Pass the Blue Door where Vincent Van Gogh lived temporarily
And Keep Climbing to the top (when in doubt, keep climbing)
Circle Counter-Clockwise around the Basilica to the front
OR
From the Anvers Metro, climb up the street to the Funicular (tram to top of Sacre Couer)
Climb the flight of stairs alongside the tram
TO RETURN
Decent Stairs along tram, down the street to Anvers Metro
Proceed West (left) down the Boulevard Marguerite de Rochechouart (major walkway and dog walk in the center of street)
Which becomes the Boulevard de Clichy, continue past Pigalle Metro
Before the Blanche Metro you will find one of our favorite (establishments) Le Chat Noir (The Black Cat)
Not pretentious, not run-down, clean, not empty, feels like familiar locals line up at the Coffee Bar (that checks all the boxes)
M A S S T I M E S
https://www.sacre-coeur-montmartre.com/english/
Monday to Friday
7 am, 11 am, 3 pm (Friday only), 6.30 pm, 10 pm
The Friday mass at 3pm (Votive mass of the Sacred Heart) is followed by a period of adoration or a Eucharistic procession and during Lent, Way of the Cross prayer.
Saturday
7 am, 11 am, 10 pm (Anticipated Sunday Mass)
Sunday
7 am, 11 am, 6 pm, 10 pm
Anticipated Masses
On the eve of Solemnities falling on a weekday, the Masses at 6.30 pm and 10 pm are Anticipated Masses of the Solemnity (All Saints, Immaculate Conception, Saint Joseph, Ascension, Sacred Heart, Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Assumption).
Celebration of Anticipated Masses is indicated in the calendar on the French home page.
Practical information
The 7 am Mass is held in the Chapel of the Virgin Mary (at the far end of the Basilica).
Other Masses are held in the Choir.
Reservation is not necessary.
On Sundays and Feast Days, readings and hymns are included in mass sheets distributed to the faithful with translations in English, German, Spanish and Italian.
Changing an Airline Reservation
Whenever we have attempt to modify an airline reservation, it is never a small amount and often the adjustment is greater than the original fare
(this might certainly be explained since my original reservation was booked very early and at a bargain price)
Even so, I have recently considered whether a whole new reservation might be cheaper – maybe it is a complete round-trip reservation, which often is less expensive than a one-way fare for some reason)
(I have noticed that when you modify a flight with the airline, it is never an affordable price adjustment and often wonder whether it would be cheaper to explore a whole new reservation – we might be on-to-something)
The Medieval Fortress of Phillippe Auguste (Louvre)
Phillippe Auguste
Philip II of France
In the History of Le Louvre, Phillippe Auguste built a Medieval Fortress, a keep, along a wall that he constructed around Paris for Protection. The Fortress was a prison and place to store the treasures of the city. Its position along the Seine allowed to view boats approaching Paris from the water, which was hard to defend. The foundation of the fortress is all that remains of the Fortress and can be toured at Le Louvre.
pique-nique
pique-nique
(picnic is a french term)
the French word pique-nique is based on the verb piquer, which means ‘pick’, ‘peck’, or ‘nab’, and the rhyming addition nique, which means ‘thing of little importance’, ‘bagatelle’, ‘trifle’ It first appears in 1649
Pique-Nique Tanner Street Park, London
At last, going out for lunch, in a French place really worth the wait
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/19/at-last-going-out-for-lunch-at-picque-nique-a-french-place-really-worth-the-wait?CMP=share_btn_tw
images en série (serial images)
The Medieval Fortress of King Philip II
Tuileries Palace of Catherine de’ Medici
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (“At the Moulin Rouge”)
Jeanne d’Arc (Place des Pyramides)
Medici Fountain (Luxembourg Gardens)
French Cheese Map
Arriving at Versailles
Approach the Palace of Versailles walking up the Avenue de Paris
Equestrian Statute of Louis XIV (Place d’Armes)
Walk past the statute located in the Place d’Armes approaching the Main Gate
(Grille d’honneur)
Pass through the Main Gate through the Cour d’honneur up to the Palace
(this is where a sometimes substantial line snakes up
Entrance A -for individuals
(near free entrance into the gardens)
Entrance B – for groups
cobbles of the Versailles front courtyard
Access to Versailles
htthttps://youtu.be/rsI0Q4RvYz8p://bienvenue.chateauversailles.fr/en/palace/access#!panel-0-subpanel-16
Paris for the Holidays 