Paris workers seem to go to and from work later than usual. The metro was surpisingly packed at 7:30 pm. We got to La Motte-Picquet Grenelle where we got lost trying to find the Eiffel tower. It didn't look like a big walk but getting out of the station makes you disoriented. Eventually we found our way to the pier with loads of other cruise boats. We found our's in just enough time. For first course we had this cold green soup in a tiny glass which tasted disgusting. For second course, Dad and I had crab meat while Mum had salmon. For main course, Mum had beef, Dad had veal and I had duck. Finally, for dessert, I had a chocolate slice with raspberries, Mum had a cheesecake with peaches and Dad had a merengue with cherries. At the end, we got home really late and crashed into bed.
21/9/2018
We woke up at 6 am because we had to rush to catch the 7:30 train from Gare du Nord to Amiens. There, we met Barbara from True Blue Diggers Battlefield Tours as well as a couple from Sydney. We visited a different Notre Dame in Amiens which "is bigger, better, and built in half the time it took the Paris Notre Dame". There were some memorials to the Anzacs there. Then in Villers-Bretonneux, we found another Australian memorial that also fuctions as a school built after WW1 from money raised by Victorian school kids. There's even a sign in the school's playground saying "Don't forget Australia". Then there was the Sir John Monash Centre. Sir John Monash was a lieutenant general and engineer from Melbourne credidted with military strategy that won France's freedom in WW1. The centre is very interesting and interactive.
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