Here we are at our last day— we’ve loved our stay, but it’s time to go home. To get ready, we started our day by getting a COVID test at the pharmacy down the street. With our brains fully polished, we found some breakfast at the street markets on Rue Cler: A salmon and spinach mini quiche, a ham and mushrooms mini quiche, and a cheese soufflé.

The rest of the morning and early afternoon were spent waiting around. We waited for our COVID tests to return. Thankfully, we were both negative. We’d been periodically taking some tests that we brought with us, but we’ve since heard they’re not reliable. Once we got the results, we had to upload those results to our airline before we could check in.

After submitting our test results to Delta, we were sent to Air France, who services Delta’s flights out of Paris. With all of that completed, we received a boarding pass from Air France, and one from Delta. The boarding passes from Air France were wildly confusing:

First of all– our flight departs at 10:25. The timeline it outlined has the Bag drop-off limit at 9:25, which I guess makes sense, but is still an hour after the ticket says the plane would arrive at its destination! Or if you’re to take the boarding time as gospel, that’s a full FIVE hours before the plane will depart.

This is getting a little out of hand, and nobody seems to be of any help. Talking with a human being at delta would leave us on hold for over two hours, so we used their text service. The text service tells us to call whoever we bought the tickets through (my credit card company), who tells us to call delta. Don’t they know I’m on vacation? We had planned a walking tour at 4pm, so we couldn’t wait around to find out.

At around three, we high-tailed it back to Place Saint Michel to meet with our tour group. We had an enjoyable time with Sandeman’s Latin Quarter walking tour. The main highlights (for me, at least) were touring the old churches.

The first main church, we had been outside of on one of our first days here, The Église Saint-Julien-Le-Pauvre. The church is one of the oldest religious buildings in the city. It sits next to the oldest tree in town too. It was built (rebuilt?) over the ruins of another church. You can see the different styles at play below– the roman arches on the left compared to the gothic arches in the middle.

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The next church on our stop was the nearby Église Saint-Séverin. This church was also built and renovated several times. From the inside, you can see some stark differences in the styles of the stained glass on the ground floor, compared to the stained glass higher up. We were told that the first floor windows were damaged by cannon fire during the first world war. Outside, there are several pieces taken from demolished churches to do repairs, including some gargoyles. They may have went overboard there.

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There was artwork under restoration too: You can see the before, in progress, and completion:

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We ventured further south, learning more about Sarbonne, Cluny, and Richelieu, all of which went in one ear and out the other. The tour ended near the Pantheon and the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont:

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