The other day we decided to go on a walk from a book I got on Christmas where there are cards with maps on them, and at the end of a map it shows you what you do along your walk, and there are questions that you have to answer and stuff like that. We did one that led to the Bastille at the end , and we chose this one because the night before that we went to see the Nutcracker at the Opera Bastille, and before we went to see the Nutcracker we saw an amusement park across the street that was open. But when we came out from the opera it wasn't open, and I really wanted to go on the rides. So we decided we would come back tomorrow. And the next day we felt like doing one of the walks so we found this one that led straight to the Bastille so then we could do the walk, and then at the end when it finished at the Bastille we could go onto the rides.
The first stop that it told us to do in the walk was to look at a garden with a very nice house in front. The name of it was l'hotel de Sens. This is the courtyard.
And this is the house.
Actually, the person who owned this house (on the right is the back of the house) was Queen Margot, and why there's this square with nothing in the middle is because there used to be a fig tree there, but the queen had it cut down because her carriage couldn't fit through! One of the streets is still called fig street though.
This is the next stop. It's a hostel, but the funny thing is that when we were looking at it a window opened right above the door, and a woman leaned out. She was naked holding towels and her hair was all wet. It looked like she just took a shower, and she looked down and saw us and laughed. Then she went back in, and in a second she opened the window again and looked down again and laughed again.
Next stop Phillipe Auguste tower. This tower was built by Phillippe Auguste, the same person who built the Louvre. It was to protect the city while he went away on the Crusades.
Here is a thief trying to climb the tower, but he'll never get there! Oh no, I'm mistaken. That's my father.
This is a fountain right across the street from the tower. On the top in Roman numerals it said what year it was from, and when you translated it it was 1848.
This is Place des Vosges. And this is me with Louis XIII.
This is the last stop, Bastille. The Bastille was a prison where criminals were kept. Some were imprisoned for their religious beliefs. During the French Revolution the revolutionaries destroyed it. And this is a symbol to remember the Revolution.
The end.
The first stop that it told us to do in the walk was to look at a garden with a very nice house in front. The name of it was l'hotel de Sens. This is the courtyard.
And this is the house.
Actually, the person who owned this house (on the right is the back of the house) was Queen Margot, and why there's this square with nothing in the middle is because there used to be a fig tree there, but the queen had it cut down because her carriage couldn't fit through! One of the streets is still called fig street though.
This is the next stop. It's a hostel, but the funny thing is that when we were looking at it a window opened right above the door, and a woman leaned out. She was naked holding towels and her hair was all wet. It looked like she just took a shower, and she looked down and saw us and laughed. Then she went back in, and in a second she opened the window again and looked down again and laughed again.
Next stop Phillipe Auguste tower. This tower was built by Phillippe Auguste, the same person who built the Louvre. It was to protect the city while he went away on the Crusades.
Here is a thief trying to climb the tower, but he'll never get there! Oh no, I'm mistaken. That's my father.
This is a fountain right across the street from the tower. On the top in Roman numerals it said what year it was from, and when you translated it it was 1848.
This is Place des Vosges. And this is me with Louis XIII.
This is the last stop, Bastille. The Bastille was a prison where criminals were kept. Some were imprisoned for their religious beliefs. During the French Revolution the revolutionaries destroyed it. And this is a symbol to remember the Revolution.
The end.