Chateau de Vincennes

We stopped for lunch at a small restaurant near Notre Dame. We were standing outside reading the menu and thinking about getting some crepes from the outside stand when the proprietor invited us inside to have a seat and he'd get us the crepes. So we went in. We each had a crepe, except for Rebecca, who wanted a hot dog. They were good, although a bit large and the egg was a little runny. (It seems no one outside the USA cooks their eggs as much as we do in the States as J. R. recalled having issues with runny eggs when he visited Japan).

After lunch, it was back on the Metro to Vincennes, where we toured the Chateau de Vincennes, a medieval castle. We toured the recently-restored Donjon, which at, 55 meters high, is the highest surviving fortified medieval structure in Europe. The castle had been the Royal residence until the palace at Versailles was built. The castle was used as a barracks and prison by the Germans during the occupation of the Second World War and parts of the castle wall were destroyed as the retreating Nazis destroyed their remaining ammunition and explosives in 1944. The pavilions and castle walls have only recently been restored to their medieval state.