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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2011 16:11:26 GMT
Are there any threads here about Sacré Coeur please? I searched but couldn't find any.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2011 17:15:10 GMT
Ha ha, that's because I don't do tourist sites! But since I only live 10 minutes away, I can whip one up really fast. What do you want to see? I did do a little number on the Fête des Vendanges, though. Excellent fireworks! |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2011 22:48:14 GMT
Oooo please whip one up for me K2 - I'd like to the aritists at work nearby Sacré Coeur and I'm sure I remember seeing, years ago market stalls too.... preferably in day light! ;D
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Post by koloagirl on May 6, 2011 19:02:36 GMT
 ;D Aloha "Kerouac2"!! I know that you don't normally haunt the tourist venues - but I missed going to Montmartre and Sacre Coeur last year - and if it ever strikes you to take some of your wonderful photos of that area - I'd also be much appreciative of it! I'm curious about the funicular as well - it is very old (not a safety question, more a historical one!)...and do many people use it rather than hiking uphill? Ah.....pardon....I get carried away! I will, as always, enjoy whatever wonderful pictures you show us! ;D Malama Pono, Janet
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2011 19:20:42 GMT
Actually, the funicular is brand new. The old one was replaced. I would say that about half of the visitors use it to go uphill, and the other half generally wish that they had done so as well.
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Post by mich64 on May 6, 2011 19:35:28 GMT
We took the funicular and then the novelty train back down. My husband and brother-in-law went up the stair inside the church and were pleased to take the train down afterwards. My husband being a firefighter amazed at how difficult it would be to assist someone inside and up or down the stairs, so narrow he said.
The most amazing point of Sacre Coeur for myself was the foot of the statue of Peter, how it has been worn down from all who touch and pray there. Getting to and from the church was worth it for me. The subway station stairs were almost as tiresome as those at the church!
Cheers,
Mich
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 20:27:10 GMT
Just so you'll know, I don't live in Montmartre. Here is the tiny glimpse that you have of it from my nearest cross street (rue Doudeauville). Therefore, with great diligence, I took the metro to Anvers this afternoon, the most common station for visitors to Sacré Coeur. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 22:40:49 GMT
I had no intention to taking the stairs to the top, since my metro pass includes unlimited use of the funicular. Unfortunately, there was a huge queue of people waiting to take it. I quickly saw that only one of the cabins was working instead of both.   I did NOT want to wait in the heat and tourist conversation. So I took the stairs.   I looked back at the funicular victims.  Jeez, what a pain. Should I send an invoice to Rita?  Finally reached the top.  A puppet show was in progress.  The view from the top is always wonderful.  I refuse to enter the basilica today.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 23:08:19 GMT
Send me an invoice for what K2?  ;D Thank you so much for battling the crowds and how many steps, you didn't say, to fulfill my wish!  But where have all the artists gone, I remember seeing many in a narrow street close by? |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 8, 2011 1:24:34 GMT
I did not enjoy battling the crowds on rue de Steinkerque. It isn't even the height of tourist season yet! Looked at the first picture and thought, "this is nice -- let's see more." Looked at the second picture and thought, "Lotsa people out." Looked at the third picture and thought "Good god almighty!" After that I goggled so much at the throngs that I had to remind myself to appreciate the other stuff -- the beautifully composed photography with so many unexpected and interesting angles, the funicular, the fabulous long shot of Paris below, etc. What must it be like in high summer?! HOW DO YOU STAND IT? |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 5:42:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 5:49:43 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 8, 2011 6:37:11 GMT
Any self-respecting tourist has to go there at least once. So, I did go the first time I went to Paris, many years ago. Not being a very good tourist, I hated it then and only went back taking visitors. I see that it's even worse than I remember it.
Maybe it would look better in November? Actually, the last time (5 years ago?) we arrived from the back by bus and walked up through the small streets, so it was slightly better than pushing through the crowds.
Didn't the metro use to have an elevator or something inside that would go to the top, Kerouac?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 10:02:10 GMT
The other metro station that people also use -- Abbesses -- has an elevator.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2011 11:07:47 GMT
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Post by Vaycee on May 8, 2011 12:41:57 GMT
Kerouac Thanks for your great photography work!!! I'm glad I visited so many times so many years ago and from our last visit we still have the beautiful water colour we bought of the Sacre Coeur gracing our lounge room wall!!!! Couldn't bear those crowds nowadays. As you 'don't do tourist sites' I'll have to look further into this site because I'm not 'doing' them either. Catching up with a French GF instead for part of the time, but may find something to tempt me elsewhere on this site. (Have bmkd Gare du Nord pictorial tour - will absorb later  ) |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2011 21:56:59 GMT
Thanks for battling the crowds and taking so many wonderful photo's K2, especially of Place du Tertre. It's years since we visited in Paris, April 1990 I think. Me and my husband don't like crowds either, in fact neither of us like busy cities at all, we used to, must be an age thing now I guess! We had our honeymoon in Paris in 1973, I really think we should go back in a couple of years for our 40th Wedding Anniversary. |
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Post by lola on May 11, 2011 14:49:29 GMT
The last time I was in Paris was the first with my family, and our landlord recommended heading straight for Sacre Coeur that evening for an overall view. I didn't want to. We had just spent a week in the countryside, and I wanted to be there and not among the grit and crowds. I went along, grumbling internally, past prostitutes, trudged up the stairs, past guy on the steps singing Light My Fire badly, and into the basilica.
It was like dying and going to heaven: nuns chanting, pure sweet tones echoing up to the dome. Ah. Paris!
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Post by gabriele on Jul 10, 2015 3:30:24 GMT
Hi K2, sfgirl here (gabriele)...the friend who needed to find 'open mikes' sent an email to our mutual friend raving about Sacre Coeur and so he said he'd have to look up info on the place. Of course I came here, and have a half page of links for him to enjoy.
Seems it's the woman and her daughter (I know both of them)...neither speak French but are trying, and I'm sure they're having a fantastic time.
Only problem with visiting these pages is I want to be there myself---not in high season, but sometime. Maybe I'll hit the lottery..maybe.
As always, such a pleasure to visit your corner(s) of Paris and France.
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