Overcoming a fear of heights and finding macarons

After leaving them I stopped and had a coffee a Place de la Contrescarpe and thought I might head to the Montparnasse tower. I caught the metro and then went to the tower. I cannot believe I did that as I hate lifts. 56 floors and 198m it scared me to death, especially as the lift was operated from outside, that is, there are no buttons inside the lift. When I got up there I walked out to the terrasse which is in the open air and takes the tower to 200m. Unfortunately, I chose a bad day as it was really overcast and although I could see quite a bit the photos are not very good at all. 

I hoped to buy a souvenir to prove I’d been up there but the souvenir shop was closed for lunch, so I headed back down in the lift with my eyes closed and praying all the way.

Finally, I caught to the metro to St Germain des Pres and went to Deux Magots for a glass of red wine, which was very, very nice and I think I truly deserved it. I asked some tourists to please take my photo – this is the problem when travelling on your own, you never get in pictures. From there I walked to Ladurée and bought some of their famous macarons – yum, yum. 

 After that I decided I would head to France Tourisme to book a tour for next week. I was very keen to see Mont St Michel in Brittany/Normandy so decided to book that. The tour has a 7am, but fortunately, the meeting point is just up the road.