A beautifully sunny day. Not wanting to waste a minute, we met up at 8am for breakfast and decided to head off down the Seine to the Musee d’Orsay. 
After overdosing on impressionists, furniture, glassware, dinner services and sculpture, it all got too much so we detoured to the little cafe on the ground floor, where you sit with your coffee and muffin, surrounded by all this art. It was fabulous.
We left just as it was getting really busy and walked through the Louvre
to the Place de la Concorde, past the Hotel Crillon and up to the Place de l’Opera. 
We were heading for lunch at the Galeries Lafayette
where there’s a Bar a Bulles (champagne bar) on the first floor. We only went to appreciate the interior decor – nothing to do with champagne of course.
Lunch
Back to the hotel, via an ice cream at Alberto Gelati again, and back out at 7pm to get up to Sacre Coeur. It was mobbed of course, as was the Place du Tertre, but we sat and had a glass of wine and people-watched.
I had booked a table at L’Esterel, a little Montmartre restaurant that I used to go to. I don’t know who I booked a table with, because L’Esterel was no longer in existence. Instead we found a tiny little place and had a decent meal at a reasonable price considering where we were.
We got a taxi back to the Marais, which was in full swing at midnight. But we were knackered – we’d done a lot of walking and had absorbed a lot of art. A brilliant day :).
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