Sept 13 Arrival in Paris

Spend much of the day at home and head off to Marks and Spencer's on the way to the train station to buy some undies.  What an exciting purchase!  Had dinner at St Pancras station which was huge and quite striking.  Arrived in Paris late evening, found our place which was very eclectic Parisian....I think the term is shabby-chic.  There was some chic, but definitely some shabby, the sink in the dunny had no drain pipe in it.  There was a bucket under the sink...yet there was some modern/contemporary reasonably smart decoration....along with wires protruding from the wall in the kitchen above the sink......would you call all that eclectic or unfinished?  But it was a very quiet place right I the middle of Paris...just a short stroll to Notre Dame and the thousands of tourists lining up for their "Religious Experience". Everywhere we walked there were places to eat offering all manner of ethnic cuisines. One disturbing image is all the homeless people....not many "Frenchmen"...mainly Africans East Europeans and people from the Middle East. There is a lot of begging on the streets especially in the busy areas.