The last post!

Today we went shopping!

Most of our time was spent at my favourite store in Paris...

Galeries Lafayette, Haussmann has become a Paris icon

since its creation in 1894, and is a must-visit venue.
The department store’s beautiful Art Nouveau Cupola

encloses 70,000 square metres of retail floor space dedicated to fashion. More than 3,500 brands from around the world,

ranging from the affordable to luxury,

can be found in the three buildings, along with 25 restaurants.

We had lunch up on the terrace, there are great views over Paris.

You can see the Pompidou Centre, Opera Garnier, Eiffel Tower

the top of the Arc de Triomphe and Sacre Coeur.

The Eiffel Tower on the skyline.

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Sacre Coeur 

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The Opera Garnier is in the background of this photo.

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I've had a wonderful day...Andrew suggested I look for something

new to wear to the functions we'll be attending when we return home.

I didn't need to have my arm twisted and found

something perfect by the French designer IRO.

THEN he suggested I look for some

shoes to go with it. By the end of the day...mission accomplished.

Andrew's Brownie Point tally really soared today!

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Tomorrow will be our last full day in Paris,

we'll just take it easy and organise our packing.

Tomorrow night we're going to Le Crazy Horse Cabaret.

We looked at Moulin Rouge and Lido too but in the end

after advice from Fleur we decided on Le Crazy Horse.

It's described like this...

More risqué than the other cabarets, Le Crazy Horse,

whose art du nu was invented in 1951 by Alain Bernadin,

is an ode to feminine beauty: lookalike dancers with provocative names

like Flamma Rosa and Nooka Caramel, and identical body statistics

(when standing, the girls' nipples and hips are all the same height)

move around the stage, clad only in rainbow light

and strategic strips of black tape.

Ooh la la! It should be an interesting evening!

On Tuesday we will explore Montmartre before heading

to the airport for our 9pm flight.

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We've had a great holiday and have had lots of

positive feedback about the blog.

It's been lovely to have you all following along.

It was intended to be our travel diary and it

should be a record of the holiday that we can look back

on from time to time.

We feel very lucky to be able to explore new places

and will have to start planning our next adventure.

Au revoir for now, avec amour de Michelle & Andrew xx