After that we caught the Metro back to the Ile de Cite and after wandering through the lovely flower market found Notre Dame.
After a brief inspection of that it was time for more important matters: the best ice cream shop in Paris! Delia really has done her research for this trip and insisted we find our way to Ile de St Louis along some narrow street where all the fabulously rich and beautiful live to find some seriously good ice cream. Apparently they have about 58 flavours, and we had...... vanilla, chocolate and strawberry! Was it worth the trek? Delia was right of course.
Ice cream heaven
Then over to the Latin Quarter for a spot of lunch. Pretentious? Moi?
When we finished watching the world walk by on Boulevard St Germain we caught the Metro to the Cite des Sciences & de l'industrie. Basically a French version of Science-Works but bigger. Much Bigger. We walked up to it and it really was the size of a dozen aircraft hangers and I was very excited about the prospect as they had this amazing billycart track and flight simulator I was very keen to try. When we eventually found the entrance (it really is very big) and got in we were quite amazed to discover it was mostly empty space.
Not only that, they'd dismantled the billycart track and the flight simulator had a queue of 10 year olds waiting for a go which even I felt a bit shame faced about pushing in front of to have a go in the short amount of time we had. So I missed out on both. Dagnammit.
Oh yes the kids, they got to go on a few things which were fun but all after you've been to Questacon in Canberra (I know, something great in Canberra, who'd have thunk it?) it was a little bit of a disappointment. C'est la vie mon petit chou.
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