With thanks to help from guest blogger for Day 11: birdsey7

This morning we decide to test out the route to the Beauvais airport shuttle bus. This starts badly when we march off down Bv de Reuilly instead of Rue de Reuilly. Luckily we realise before too long so we trace our steps back to Bercy Square and start again. It is about a 20 minute walk to Reuilly-Diderot, then about a half hour ride to Porte Maillot. We follow the signs to the bus, losing sight of them at one point and going up and down stairs before realising we have gone wrong. More retracing of steps and when we finally emerge above ground we find we still have about a five minute walk back to the bus station.

On the way back we find a much quicker route to the metro directly below the Palais des Congrès. But the popular opinion is that it it will probably be easier to take a cab. Then we take the train to Montmartre (Anvers) and after a quick beer and coffee take the funicular up to Sacré Cœur.

This is a very big impressive looking pile on top of a steep hill. The church was built in the 1870s so has a rather romantic feel to it with lots of colourful pictures and mosaics, not at all like the old Gothic churches.

After this we walk down some steep steps and narrow cobbled streets and find a cute bar for lunch, Au clair de lune. We manage to find Château rouge metro station, which is immensely busy. In the confusion we get on the down train instead of the up train, but this proves to be a good thing because it is the right line to go straight to the Champs-Élysées. We emerge at George V station into a mass of tourists and traffic. We have a quick look at the Arc (which was decorated with scaffolding, like nearly every other landmark we’ve looked at on this trip so far), then scurry back into the underground at Charles de Gaulle Étoile.

Soon we are over the river at Ber-Hakeim with several hundred others. We walk with the crowds to the bottom of the Eiffel Tower, marvel at its size and then walk back to the station, onto a rattly old train and back to our old familiar Dugommier.