Sacré-Cœur Basilica

After a short break it was across town to catch the sunset at Sacré-Cœur Basilica

Lots of people milling around, there was even a guy showing his skills with a football, keeping it in the air with his head, shoulders, feet, knees etc. I can't recall if I noticed a donation bucket or not but he had people fascinated with their cameras clicking.

Reserving a spot on the grass before it got too crowded around sunset
The building catching just a little sunlight, in front of the guy in white - is that the same building as shown in this photo of mine from 1963.

Perhaps not, the windows look different.

But zooming in on the background we see ...


And in the 1963 photo - also with a lamp post in the foreground

8:13pm

8:17pm, walking to a restaurant that Jeantine had tried before on the chance we would get a table and be dined in time to return to the sunset.

8:58pm. The Grand 8. The maitre-d had personality and the meal was beautifully prepared. — with Jeantine Mankelow and Barbara Mankelow.

After dinner it was back out to the view over Paris from the Basilica 9:49pm

9:50pm and posing for a photo

9:51pm, at the going down of the sun, a gathering of people

And to get high enough to not have the railing in the foreground, you seek some elevated footing

9:58pm, no railing in the photo but, a TV aerial

10:00pm, and there is the railing

10:06pm, and the moon is up. Better go inside the Basilica

And there was a service underway. It felt like we were eavesdropping or being nosey

Light patterns and curves caught my eye

More light patterns

10:18 pm Heading outside and there is the moon. Barb and Jeantine (with iPhone) in the left foreground

10:25pm, people out enjoying the evening at Montmartre and time for us to catch the Metro back to our Montparnasse base

Just thinking I didn't see any icecream stand up at Sacré-Cœur in July 2016. Nor do I recall seeing buses up there, perhaps, as at Mt. Eden in Auckland, it has got too busy and too crowded.

Although ...

there were cars up there