"Listen to them... the children of the night... what music they make!" Dracula, Bram Stoker.

 

Some months ago I wrote about our going to a 3-day trip to see NIN’s concert there. We visited a few things there. The weather was wonderful so we could have a long walk through the world-famous Pere Lachaise cemetery, where Jim Morrison was buried. I took a few pictures of that day… here they are…

 

First thing one has to see in Paris, I suppose, is the Eiffel Tower, especially because it wasn’t very far from our youth hostel. That’s the view we had while eating our sandwiches… I regret that Paris couldn’t afford to paint their buses another colour than the traditional Londonian red! Red buses for my beloved London, and nowhere else!

 

 

 

 

Le Grand Palais, where we saw an exposition on Egypt on the last day of our trip...

 

 

 

 

 

The same day, for dinner, we went to eat a delicious Couscous in a nice Algerian place not far from Place Pigalle and Le Moulin Rouge… That’s one of the best couscous place I’ve ever been to!

 

 

 

The day after, we went to The Pere Lachaise Cemetary and had a long walk there as it was sunny and not cold at all. There are very old tombs and many of them are quite particular, genuine and even spooky sometimes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one  I found spooky… there was only a small space to look into it, that’s why I used my camera to see what was inside… the view of that abandoned dusty child-angel appalled me …The burial dates were rather old too… It made me feel strange to think that no one has visited that place for a long time, maybe decades… it makes the place feel quite desolate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, this cemetery really looks like a Necropolis… I don’t know how to explain this strange impression I have when I have the opportunity to visit it… It is as if those older tombs formed a real city.. and in a way, they give life back to those who have been buried here.

 

 

  Chopin's Grave.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found this frame funny, as it stood empty in such a place… so we had to find a way to enliven it a little!