by Shaun Day 1 The train dropped us off at the Gare Du Nord , from which we quickly learned how to use the Paris Metro ( may-troh ) to get to our flat in the arrondissement of Montmartre. We set our things down and hiked up an epic set of stairs to the Sacre Coeur, a ivory-colored cathedral keeping watch over the City of Lights. Below the domes and spires of the cathedral crowds from around the world were gathered, as they do nightly, playing music, taking selfies, drinking wine and speaking in French, Italian, Russian, English, Chinese, Somali, etc.... The scene was the love child of The Tower of Babel and It’s a Small World After All. Afterwards, we went to a cafĂ© and used my survival French to order dinner. The French waiters gave me pointers and seemed to enjoy it. Day 2 Well, if we’d weathered the world’s tenth largest museum the day prior in London, what could hold us back from tackling The Louvre, the world’s second largest?...