T
ook the train to Chartres
Chartres is about an hour and a half from Paris. I'm all for cathedrals man, but we seriously were in that church for FIVE HOURS. I mean...I don't even go to church. This was definitely a spiritual OVERLOAD. I also walked around this labryinth thing just for fun and then afterwards read a plaque that informed me that I had just taken a spritual journey. Oops. That wasn't in my plan for the day. I gotta say though...I feel cleansed.
Visited Montparnasse Cemetary in Paris:
This was seriously one of the most gorgeous cemeteries ever! Jean Paul Sartres and Charles Baudelaire were buried here along with tons of other famous people. The really cool thing though is just wandering around this beautiful place. I found so many touching gravestones and messages to family and friends. My absolute favorite was this amazing sculpture of a woman being carried off by death and as she is descending she is holding on to the precipice of the earth with one hand and blowing a kiss to her lover who is standing on a rock sobbing. It choked me up.
Visited the catacombs:
I gotta say the catacombs were pretty grim. Like, hundreds and hundreds of feet of bone lined tunnels way underground. Not only do you have to be trapped in a tiny space with thousands of bones, but you have to get down there via this neverending spiral staircase and THEN you have to walk through maybe a mile and a half of dark tunnels to GET to the bone tunnels. It was like taking a walk in and out of hell. Enormously creepy.
The entrance actually said "Stop! Here is the empire of the dead."
Then we had to walk back UP the tiny spiral staircase. Still, overall, I'd say it was a successful day.
AND rode the metro...alot...
And I would just like to add a little message to the, I kid you not, BRASS BAND that woke me up this morning:
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