After a big night out we slept in and were feeling a bit seedy. We eventually made it out of the house and headed for The Catacombs. When we got there we were confronted with a line that was about 100 people long. Anyway we stood in the cold and much to our indignant Australian anger watched as a girl about to push into the line just behind us. Unfortunately she was successful and we couldn't believe how sly she was.
Anyway that aside the Catacombs were underground tunnel mine things that got turned into tombs in the 1700 when there was a massive plague. A whole bunch of people died and were tossed into mass graves- but because there wasn't much room it was very unhygenic and they decided to take them down into the tunnels. The bones and skulls are all arranged in patterns, love hearts and different shapes. Its quite beautiful. You have to walk down about 130 steps and walk through very winding tunnels to get to the bone section. There are so many bones- thousands of people in there. I thought it might be creepy in there but it wasn't- just interesting. No strange vibe. Just peaceful.
We did see some hilarious things in the Catacombs that I don't want my ageing brain to forget.
1. this little kid was walking around with his legs wide apart like a cowboy. Hilarious.
2. There was this girl who was being photographed in the tunnels by these two others- and she was acting like a model even though she didn't really look like one and it was fairly funny. Probably had to be there.
3. Not that we saw this but Bron and I were making spooky noises to scare these kids but ended up scaring ourselves.
After the catacombs we headed back to the Latin Quarter where we saw a 15 Euro 3 course meal advertised. Not a bad price in Paris.
Bron ordered snails (Tim and I were a bit hesitant to order a whole plate and just tasted Brons). Basically tasted like garlic butter chewy gobs. Not unpleasant- quite nice but nothing to rave about really.
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