Exit through the Gift Shop

Jackie Bear, Ngila's faithful companion, is enjoying Paris with us.

He was given to Ngila by her Uncle Dorian when she was just weeks old. And Uncle Dorian flew in from Glasgow to spend our last 2 days with Ngila and Jackie (and us). What a great surprise!

As Dorian didn't arrive until late Friday and an excited Ngila wouldn't go to sleep until he'd arrived, yesterday was a laid back, wandering day.

We walked to Notre Dame along the river where activities highlighting Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympics were taking place.

The church was holding an induction service and not open to the public.

Instead we saw Saint Chapelle with it's incredible medieval stain glass. The ordinary folk had to worship down stairs in a still lovely but rather dungeon like area.

Only the nobility got to see the glass upstairs.

The nearby Conciergerie was included in our ticket.

It's where prisoners were held before their trials during the Revolution. Almost always, they were then carted to the Place du Concorde to be "humanly" guillotined.

The most famous prisoners being Marie Antoinette and Louis XV1. The gift shops in the various museums have been a huge hit.