From home now - Paris memories

Montmartre on a Sunday, very crowded. It's a bit like being at Circular Quay. Sacre Coeur and the area around the funicular always packed, on Sunday there is a market as well.
At Place de Tetre strolling 'artists' may ask if you would like to be immortalised in a drawing or someone may ask if you would like your portrait created using scissors. These mainly guys walk around all day and there is quite a friendly cohort of them.

 Had a great meal here in December, first dish of snails in parsely butter.

 This is Place de Tertre, here artists work and sell.

 Couldn't resist these tiny puffer jacketed girls.

 Around Montmartre, a good view back up towards the Sacre Coeur

 The reconstructed Moulin Rouge - very neat now.

 Saw this place in December as well, have no idea if it is a chapel or tomb or home?

 Great view of the Tower

 So very Paris oui?

 Not sure who created this but found it in a tiny garden at the base of Montmartre up from the Metro Abbesses

 After a few beers and many pommes de frittes in Montmartre we went to see the Eiffel tower.

 Always crowded didn't even try to join the queues to go up. But fabulous seeing the structure.

It's very loved and there is always a carnival atmosphere around this area

 Also a market along the Seine in this area - saw three soldiers with machine guns and berets patrolling - very unnerving. They were fit, short and fully armed.

 The garden wall of the Musee Branly

 Looking across the Seine to the Trocadero. This was the site of the 1937 Paris Exposition - the one with the memorable photo of the hammer and sickle on one pier and the swastika on the other. This was the year after the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

 This is the Tokyo Palace - part of the 1937 Exposition. This is a popular place for skateboarders - fantastic concrete forecourt.

 From down the river

 Back at Alma Place watching the world go by enjoying a beer.

 Enjoying Paris with a photographer includes sitting waiting the the light to fall and the lights to come on. Enjoying Paris with a Yorkshire photographer means quite a few beers - we discovered the French beer 1664 and loved it.

What a great day - walking and walking, so much to see and enjoy.