I Smell Evergreens, Turkey and Dead People?

Christmas holidays….dead people? Today we visited the Paris catacombs, an underground tunnel system containing the bones of 6 million Parisians. In 1786 the Parisian government decided to move these human remains, from overcrowded, thought to be unsanitary cemeteries, to an existing underground series of tunnels that were part of limestone quarry system.

The damp one mile subterranean walk was thick with human bones that were neatly stacked floor to ceiling. Fighting the urge to reach out and grab a tibia was difficult, but we managed to obey the rules and resist.

The girls walked the entire route without complaint, including the 60 feet of steep spiral stairs. P had some concerns over ghosts, but otherwise they were unaffected by the morbidity. It’s crazy to think of the 6 million lives lived by these bones, now lost in anonymity and stacked liked firewood.

I wonder how many people this is?

Is that a ghost or Dad?

Boo!