On Monday, September 26th, we went for breakfast to a place I had picked out near Petite France, Strasbourg's canal area. But the restaurant no longer existed--a Thai restaurant was there instead, not open for breakfast. So, instead, we wandered around Petite France, then ate at a bakery we happened to pass--not great.
Since our train wasn't until 12:19, we wandered around, looking into the church of St.-Pierre-le-Vieux and going by Place Kléber and the Cathedral again.
The high-speed train ride to Gare de l'Est was uneventful, except that the weather got rainier the closer we got to Paris, and in spite of our umbrellas, we got wet on the way to our hotel, Le Citizen, which overlooks the Canal-St.-Martin. I think our room may have been upgraded, because it was wonderful--long and narrow, on the top floor.
We got online tickets (4:30 p.m.) to the Sainte-Chapelle and took the Metro down to the Cité stop. Of course, we'd seen the Sainte-Chapelle before, the palace chapel built by St. Louis IX in the thirteenth century (over an unusually short period of time for a gothic church) to house the Crown of Thorns, which he had obtained as an indirect result of the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204.
We had not been to see Notre-Dame since the fire on April 15, 2019 that almost destroyed it.
We returned to our hotel, then had a very nice dinner at the nearby Les Enfants Perdus. It was just coincidence that our first dinner on this trip was with Naughty Children, while our last was with Lost Children, both in Paris, two very different restaurants in two very different neighborhoods at different ends of the city.
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