Jake & Miles' European Excursion

P	assion
A	rt at the Louvre
R	iding a bike
I	saw the Eiffel Tower
S	ightseeing at the Arc de Triomphe

Tour de Eiffel

The Louvre

J	ust amazing		P	assionate
A	rtistic		A	time to remember
I	maginative		R	espectful
M	ind manipulising		I	ntegrity
E	nergetic		S	tatue of Liberty

The Louvre

The Arc de Triomphe

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Stop! This is the empire of the dead

It turns out that convincing the children to write a blog every day is difficult, so instead I will have to conduct an interview.

The Interview

What was your favourite part of the Catacombs?

Jake: The skulls!

Miles: The tunnel!

What did you learn during your trip through the Catacombs?

Miles: There are over one million skeletons stored there.

Jake: The Catacombs has a gift shop. Also there are a bunch of skulls.

Would you recommend this visit to your friends, and why?

Jake: If you like creepy stuff, then yes.

Miles: I would, because it’s good.

Describe the Catacombs to someone who has never heard about it

Miles: The Catacombs are underground and there are skulls in the Catacombs. It is really cold because it is underground. If you want you can get an audio guide that teaches you about the Catacombs. The audio guide was really good and it teaches you stuff. At the end there is a gift shop.

Jake: The Catacombs is this place in Paris that stretches around 3 kilometers, but most of it is blocked off. It is this place where, when people died, they put all the bones and skulls down there. There are about 5 million people down there, and the bones are just stacked on each other. I’m prety sure that King Louis XVI’s skull is down there.

One of these skulls could be Louis XVI

Some more photos of skulls

By the envy of the devil, death entered the world

Yes, that last one is not a photo of skulls, but I’m using it as the working title for my next doom metal album.

Today we went on a tour around Paris on some hired bikes there were 9 other people doing it. The tour guide was from Buenos Aires, Argentina. We were riding red bikes with three back gears.

On the bike ride we went to a lot of places such as: The Military School, the Dome Church, the Arc de Triomphe, the Concord square, the Alexander the 3rd Bridge, the Louvre, and finally the Eiffel Tower.

My favourite place was the Louvre then the Eiffel Tower and then the Arc de Triomphe.

Here are 5 fun facts about the Dome:

1. The top of the Dome is covered with 12.65 kg of gold leaf.
2. The famous Napoleon Bonaparte is buried inside.
3. The church was built by King Louis XIV…
4. … but he only went there twice in his life.
5. He also only had two showers in his life!

The Dôme des Invalides

Map of the ride

After the ride

We set out to find lunch and in this case we found the best lunch I’ve had in a long time we had: coppa ham, haloumi, beef tartare, avocado toast, spaghetti, and fried chicken

We went to the Arc de Triomphe after lunch and we went all the way to the top and it had a great view we could see the Eiffel Tower, the Dome Church, and the Montparnasse Tower.

View from the Arc de Triomphe back down the Champs Elysses

Jake and Miles descending the steps inside the Arc de Triomphe