Tuesday 11 October: Last day in Paris

It's going to be a busy couple of days for us, with Belgium tomorrow, and New York on Thursday. So time for some housekeeping, which basically meant finding the nearest laundromat and getting our stuff presentable again. While our clothes were washing we found a supermarket and stocked up on the essentials every traveller needs - fruit and chocolate. Then we walked to the church of St Sulpice, made famous (or infamous) in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. The church is very large and rather ugly, but there is a considerable amount of restoration work occurring.

Having got the housework out of the way, we caught the metro to the Eiffel Tower, where we took some pictures. Unfortunately the square under the tower was being resurfaced, so the best angles were closed off. As we had already got some high level pictures from Montparnasse, we didn't bother queueing to go up the tower.

A long walk then past the Ecóle Militaire, and the UNESCO building where we saw the fat cats coming and going. We arrived at Les Invalides too late to see Napoleon's tomb, so we had a coffee instead then walked back to the hotel.

Dinner in a nice little café around the corner, then an hour or so taking pictures around the Louvre pyramid. Back to the hotel to pack everything for tomorrow's train to Belgium.