Catacombes

So being a rainy weekend, there is not a lot of nice things to do in Paris -there are only so many chocolat chauds one person can drink! We had also had a fairly big night the night before (that ended in a massive two day hangover!). So the appeal of a dark and quiet underground museum was very high. The line to get in was not that big but moved so slowly...they only allow 200 people inside at a time and it was a horrible day so I think a lot of tourists were there that normally wouldn't be. The catacombes are where the government moved heaps of bones from the old cemetries when they got too full. Now its a tourist attraction...lovley!
To get to the bones you ahve to walk down what felt liek hundreds of stairs and then through these long corridors (about 2km in all) until you see this....

It's not the most pleasnt of outings and the water table is quite high so it was a bit muddy in sectiosn which adds to the creepyness. I think the people who put the bones there had a lot of fun though. There were patterns in most of the 'walls' - one was a heart made out of skulls! You can't use a flash so these pictures aren't great but you get the idea!