So... when we left we were still roaming around Montmartre and had just finished the visit to Espace Dali... next we had a brief stop for a coffee at one of the cafes near Place du Tertre, which is where I took this cute photo of their neat wall painting.
Then we began walking down the hill towards Montmartre Cemetery...
This random guy phasing through the wall was pretty cool... much more interesting than random graffiti.
Random shot while strolling through Montmartre... and finally we made it to the cemetery where my friend visited the grave of Vaslav Nijinsky a very famous Russian dancer, member of the Imperial Russian Ballet, witness to the Bloody Sunday massacre of St Petersburg, and schizophrenic.
I must confess this is one of the most beautiful gravestones I have ever seen...
Although this one has a certain sorrowful beauty to it too...
So having found the correct grave here, we started the trip towards Père Lachaise Cemetery to find the graves of Oscar Wilde (writer and poet) and Jim Morrison (musician and poet).
Passing by the Moulin Rouge during the day, which felt quite strange actually to see it so quiet, for contrast I include a picture of it at night...
Eventually we arrived at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and after quite a lot of walking, we found Jim Morrison's grave, it is tucked away behind several other plots, and is fenced off to prevent the public from causing any further damage to it.
His grave was quite simple really, but all around it people have written messages over the years, many peace signs and such are scattered around the immediate area, much as cemetery staff hate that.
This is Oscar Wilde's incredibly fancy tomb, which is now shielded from the kisses of his admirers since the chemicals in their lip sticks were actually eroding the stone masonry... keep that in mind people, you smear this stuff on your lips!
Aaaaand just to round this post out... here are your incredibly cliche landmarks!
Unfortunately for both, by the time I got to them conditions were not ideal and I was really unsteady on my leg, so both photos are quite bad actually... oh well its a perfect excuse to go back sometime soon and take some much nicer ones.
The Eiffel Tower did actually look somewhat pretty in the fog and hail, but there was no way I was bothering to climb up it in that weather.
And the Arc de Triomphe, I don't really know what I thought about this, it certainly is a big stone structure.... I personally think the Brandenburg Gate is prettier.
And just in case you feel studious about any of the topics in this super fast update, check the links below!
References:
Montmartre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmartre
Montmartre Cemetery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimetiere_de_Montmartre
Vaslav Nijinsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky
Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)
Moulin Rouge - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge
Père Lachaise Cemetery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_Lachaise_Cemetery
Jim Morrison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison
Oscar Wilde - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
Eiffel Tower - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
Arc de Triomphe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe
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