Last weekend, Chris and I visited a park that we’d heard about a few times called Parc de Buttes Chaumont.  We had beautiful weather in early May and decided to check out some new parks. This park has unique topography and the river running through it and steep cliffs in the centre. It was 3 trains to get there from where we live, but we wanted to see something new that is right under our nose.  There are many families and couples that spend a day or part of the day there picnicing by the water. It is a very hilly park but one that invites people to lie out on the grass and enjoy the scenery with food and wine and a good book.  Check out the photos and see how ‘common’ the bottles of wine are in the picnic pictures…At one point I crossed the suspension bridge to hike up to the lookout gazebo (Chris watched from below – not a fan of heights :).  On the way home there were older men playing bocci all the way down the side of the road and younger students playing ‘kuub’. It was a park worth checking out, for sure.

After the park, we took a bus to Pere LaChaise cemetery to try to find Jim Morrison’s gravestone.  We walked the quiet paths in awe of the magnificent and sometimes very eerie headstones.  It is a beautiful place to walk. We did find Oscar Wilde’s grave which is a very popular one to visit there. Soon after we were ‘kicked out’ because the park was  closing.  It was a great day out seeing a corner of Paris we hadn’t seen.

Pere LaChaise headstones