Day 16: Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Notre Dame and Shakespeare & Co.

Our day began with breakfast. We left the hotel and got pastries at a nearby pastry shop before heading to a local café for hot chocolate and coffee. The picture below is a picture taken of a scrap of a note taped to a light pole near the café. It reads "young Polish woman"...We speculated on its potential meaning, but came up with no reasonable explanation. Why is it posted here? To make everyone think --- and realize that visiting Paris for the first time can be a disorienting experience.

We decided to head to Montmartre. We did a bit of shopping and rode the merry-go-round at the Pplace Louise Michel at the base of Sacré Coeur.

 Of course, this is an area of Paris where tourists gather --- and so do pickpockets! We stayed on alert.