Paris - Day 4

Today was our last day, so after breakfast we packed our stuff and left the hotel. We'd noticed there was an ostrich mural on the building opposite.

We went to the Enfants Rouges market, but it was already pretty quiet.

Further on we went into the Arts and Crafts museum, which was very interesting and full of intricate historic machines. We spent a good couple of hours there.

We then headed to the shops, taking the Metro to Boulevard Haussmann. We went into two of the main department stores, starting with Printemps Haussmann. On the 7th floor you can get out onto a roof terrace.

Almost next door is Galeries Lafayette. They're getting ready for Christmas, but not all the decorations were finished yet.

They have restaurants on the 8th floor and a terrace on the 9th.

We decided to go and see the Arc de Triomphe, so caught the metro there and had a walk around.

With time to spare before our flight, we went back for a beer at the Frog & Rosbif. Unfortunately we got a bit lost between the Metro station and the pub, and got a bit soaked in a heavy rain shower. We also found it wasn't happy hour and beer was 9 euros a pint. Still tasted good though...

Since we were near the start of Rue St Denis, we decided to go for a walk down it. At one point we decided to go for a drink, and coincidentally found ourselves outside Le Sully, which happened to be a pub Scott had researched before the trip. It was good value and quite quirky.

We still had time for dinner before our flight, so headed towards the Gare du Nord looking for somewhere on the way. We ended up going into a very informal Bangladeshi restaurant. We had a selection of beef and lamb curries, with side dishes, rice and naan bread, it was all very good.

We went for a final drink at a bar near the station, then headed towards the airport.

The journey home went very smoothly until we started our drive from Edinburgh airport home. The M9 motorway was closed so we had to take back roads most of the way home. We still got home well before midnight though.