Femurs, Tibias and Skulls. Oh mon dieu.

Knowing me, you would think that I would spend my day looking for ways to sneak into Paris Fashion Week. Yet today I decided to spend some quality time with thousands of skeletons (so you might think yes I did sneak into Paris Fashion week however these were DEAD skeletons. Oh snap). I went to the Catacombs today and it was one of the coolest/creepiest things I've ever experienced. Les Catacombes were created in the late 1700's because people living in Les Halles complained that the corpses in the nearby Cemetary of Saints-Innocents were causing diseases. So the skeletons were moved to the former mines of Paris and various cemetaries around Paris then deposited their bones there until the late 1800s. There are even skeletons of soldiers from the French Revolution in les catacombes.
To enter les catacombes, you descend a spiral staircase that is so long you feel dizzy and nauseous at the end and then enter narrow pathways. You walk for about 1 km or so before entering the bone chamber. There is just stacks upon stacks of bones, mainly skulls and leg bones. The bone piles went on for about another kilometre I think. I felt like I was at Disneyland on a combination Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean ride. It was very cool but needless to say I was happy to get out of there, breathe fresh air, and see living organisms.







For those who think I've gone all emo screamo, never fear. I still know where my true calling lies. After les catacombs, I went to le Bon Marche, an amazing department store close to my school. There have gorgeous shoes and clothes and I fell in love with a trenchcoat by Tsumori Chisato and a cream chiffon miniskirt with grommets by Maje. Unfortunately, both were a little out of my price range. And when I say a little I mean a lot. So I soothed my sorrows with a trip to Zara and other more affordable stores. Les Soldes are going on right now which are sales of price slashing proportion in practically every store. So like if you can get three things for the original price of one, why wouldn't you buy them?