Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau is in the Ile-de-France, 45 minutes outside of Paris by train. It is known for it's forest hiking (which we did not do) and it's royal chateaux, Fontainebleau. Lots of amazing kings, Louis', Empress', and Napoleon lived there. There are amazing tapetries that flow over all of the walls, every ceiling is painted, and it has close to a zillion chairs. The tour starts by taking you through the small apartments, which ironically are all sitting rooms. Kings must have done A LOT of sitting with A LOT of people. I loved the library because it had a giant globe in the middle of the room and 14,000 books.

We walked around and then decided that we were starving and we needed to get back to Paris. Marisa knew of a quirky place to get fondue, so 7 of us girls went. The fondue, "Refuge des fondues", place is tucked away a tiny side street in Montmartre. There is grafitti all over the walls and the tables are set up in two long rows with benches for seating. We were really early, but we heard that there is always a wait. Surprisingly, we were the first ones there and they set us up for beef fondue and cheese fondue (18 euro person). They served us wine is glass baby bottles (I said "quirky") and gave us endless baskets of bread (I think my side ate 6). By the time we starting eating, the place was packed (with English-speaking toursits). For dessert, we had...fruit. Chocolate fondue is not a French tradition, so they don't have it in France! AH!

Since we so stuffed, we decided to walk around the area (Montmartre) and see Sacre Coeur. We climbed all of the stairs to the top of the hill and looked out onto the city of lights.