Today is the last day of our tour and quite a few people are getting off here in Paris or returning home. It will be sad to see the group disperse, we will miss David and Beth and also Pepe's driving and Peter's guiding hand. Someone got a cold on the bus trip and it seems to have spread itself around. Poor Colin has woken with a sore throat and has sniffles too! Hope it doesn't progress any further.
We started today with a bus tour around some of the main sites - a photo opportunity at Eiffel Tower, a guided tour through the Notre Dame and other main areas like the art museums and a trip down the Champs Élysées.
We had some free time following this so we joined up with David and Beth for a spot of lunch and sightseeing. We are going to have to be very careful choosing places to eat as lunch once again proved to be an expensive mistake. Thinking we were just getting a takeaway sandwich, we were ushered to a table and were plied with all sorts of extras like bottled water and fries. The language barrier is pretty confusing, not helped by the serving staff being rude!
From there we took a long walk up to the Sacre Coeur Church. A pity again as no photography allowed but once again we were amazed at the art work adorning the walls. Mosaics again, so you can only be blown away by the beauty of this and admire the man hours that have gone into creating these art works.
We were picked up from town at 3.30 pm to head back to the hotel for a quick change of clothing if you wished as we are off out to our farewell dinner. The restaurant was called Scaramouche. It had all these different levels that were like little grotto's but the highlight was the menu. This included the mandatory frog's legs or snails. There were other choices as well, but I was talked into having Snails in Garlic butter, whilst Colin chose the Frog's legs. It was certainly a mind over matter thing for me as my stomach baulked at the thought but once the snail was in my mouth I could only taste garlic, but I swallowed it pretty quickly too with not much chewing. I managed to have another couple and gave one each to Colin, David and Beth. Colin chewed his somewhat more than me and said it was quite yummy. Colin's Frog legs were like chicken. Except they definitely looked like frogs legs! Main course was Prawns for me and Beef Burgundy for Colin, both of which were very nice. Chocolate mousse for me and Colin had Creme Caramel for dessert. We had some entertainment which involved us all in some singing so all in all a good night.
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