Lots of steps and brightly coloured trousers

Monday 26th July

After arriving into the Gare du Nord on the Eurostar we headed out to find out hotel.  We soon came to Gare L'est and realised we had walked the wrong way down the main road, the Boulevard de Magenta'.  We turned around and headed back and finally found the hotel, after a fair amount of stopping and checking the map.  We checked in and got the key to our room - 605 - on the sixth floor.  After huffing and puffing up the stairs we dumped our bags, made friends with the maid and went to explore the surrounding roads.  We stopped off at a little bar cafe for deux coca cola lights, s'il vous plait and sat in the window deciding what to do. 

It turned out that the Sacre Couer was just around the corner and up the road from us, so we decided to chill there for the afternoon.  Climbing more steps we reached the top, stood in awe and took awed photos.  We did a quick once-round the inside and then walked down the hill to find lunch in the shape of hots dogs with cheese.  We ate them sitting on the hill with the Sacre Couer above us and the rest of Paris below us. 

It was quite busy with tourists which made for great people watching; we saw an alarming amount of different coloured trousers walking around.  We had a quick walk down one of the roads selling all sorts of souvenirs and resisted filling our bags with postcards and drawings.  We stopped off at a very french supermarket for croissants before going back to the hotel for an early night.

Stride like the rooster!