We started our day by eating the baguette we had bought the previous day at the bakery next to our RER station of Cachan ( where our apartment was).
Our first stop was the Pantheon, a former church which is currently a museum and the burial place of a lot of famous French people. Some of the people that are buried there are: Louis Braille, Marie and Pierre Curie, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Moulin(French resistance WOII) and a few people that have done things in favor of the French Revolution
The building was very nice and contained several paintings and statues, there were also a few books by Victor Hugo and an interactive screen on which one could view the stories behind all the paintings and statues.
After the Pantheon and a lot of walking and wondering around because Google Maps wasn’t really working because of my broken GPS,
We finally found Musée d’Orsay which is a beautiful Museum with lots of art by various famous artists such as VanGogh, Manet, Gaugin, Monet and several others.
2 paintings by van Gogh I already knew quite well were the following
This painting had a special meaning for me because it featured in a Doctor Who episode about Van Gogh which is one of my favorite episodes and even if you don’t watch DW I recommend watching this episode(S05E10)
Then we went to the Champ de Mars, a large park close to the Eiffel Tower. It was quite nice, and it was a good spot to take a pictures of us in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Before we were able to get underneath the Eiffel Tower, we had to go to the security and luckily there wasn’t a long line. We didn’t go up the Eiffel Tower since we were tired and it was late. But the view from underneath was lovely as well . There were a few places where you could buy food, but nothing very grand (or atleast under the Eiffel Tower, there are some great restaurants near the Eiffel Tower).
We were still a bit hungry afterwards, so we went to find a restaurant we had previously seen in a video. Sadly the restaurant was nowhere to be found so we ate in another restaurant and ate pizza.
After dinner we traveled back to our airbnb and went to bed
that random dutch girl 