A Beautiful Museum, A Fabulous Cabaret and A Long Walk Home - Wednesday, 2 May 12

This morning we made our way to Musee Jacquemart et Andre on Boulevarde Haussman for the 10am opening.   We spend 1 ½ hours enjoying the self guided tour around this magnificent home.  We then enjoyed lunch and a pastry at what is renowned as the prettiest tea house in Paris, which is at the rear of the museum.

With a lovely lunch complete we made our way to the train station to pre-book Kel’s ticket to Brugge, and our day trip train tickets to the Loire Valley and Reims next week.  Thankfully our desk attendant was incredibly helpful.  Then it was time for a spot of shopping at Printemps and Galleries La Fayette.  We made our way home via Tiffany’s and Chanel where we popped in for a quick look!  It was about 5 pm by this stage so we spent some time at home enjoying a rest. 

At 10 pm we left for Moulin Rouge because we were booked in for the 11 pm show.  Despite all patrons pre-booking tickets we were all required to queue down along the street before being granted entry.  We only had to wait 30 minutes or so, so it wasn’t too bad.  It was actually quite serendipitous.  As we waited, Hamish and Andy walked past us.  I recognised Hamish first and then Andy and then screamed out ‘OMG, its Hamish and Andy’.  Kel and I grabbed each others arms in our excitement and were jumping up and down screaming out to them ‘I love you guys’.  It all happened so quickly and was very exciting and cool.  Unfortunately I got so caught up in my excitement that by the time my brain switched on they’d turned back around and had continued to walk away so we missed out on a very unique photo opportunity with them.  Bummer!!  They were currently in Europe for their European Gap Year.  Once we’d settled down, the American and Canadians around us asked us if they were some one famous who they should have recognised.  It was hilarious!!!   The show ‘Féerie’ was awesome and quite different to the show of the same name I saw in 2008!

When we emerged from the show at 1.30 am we discovered the metro was closed – Doh!  No problem – we’ll just get a taxi.  Once in the taxi we somehow ended up on the wrong side of the river moving further away from our apartment.  The dumb taxi driver chose to play dumb so we demanded he stopped!  We were so angry at him which probably lead to us not thinking our next move completely through!  We got out at Arc de Triomphe and walked down the Champs-Elysee to make our way home by foot.  We finally made it home at 3.30 am after a 1 or 2 hour walk in heels.  Surprisingly Paris is very quiet at that hour of the morning!