Day five of our #honeymoon.

Sunday was definitely a day of walking.

Our plan for Sunday and Monday is to get through all the things we wanted to do that were on the Paris Museum Paris before it runs out.

We first set out on the Mètro to north east Paris and went to the Philarmonie de Paris. A quaint little music museum. Unfortunately it wasn’t all open, but we still had a nice wander round two floors of exhibits of instruments and artifices from the 16-18th centuries. The audio guides were great, allowing you to listen to each instrument or instrumental style as we went through the museum.

Outside the museum was an unusual community project where volunteers were building giant buildings or structures out of cardboard boxes. We saw a ship, a rocket, a globe...and a big pile of squashed cardboard that was clearly a failed attempt!

We then walked through a region called La Villette. It was a wonderfully calm region with lots of families enjoying the park and it’s amenities. The other end of the park was the science museum and “la Gèode” - a spherical cinema building devoted to VR exhibits and IMAX documentaries.

After realising we’d missed the next IMAX doc by about four minutes, we wandered across the bridge to the science museum (the museum is surrounded by a moat). We had lunch at the Burger King, then spent some time in the science museum in the mathematics and sound exhibits. These were very interactive and contained a lot of puzzles.

We then got the Mètro back into central Paris and headed to the Jewish Museum. Fascinating, one takeaway I had is how Jewish culture has kept its essence through the centuries but still been influenced by host cultures. The museum was in a very unsuspecting road, though set back through a courtyard. On the way out we saw a sign to an exhibit...there are no words. It was a room of clashingly bright colours and children’s toys that had been deformed or modified (giant teddy bear with four bodies and one head?). On that note, we left.

We crossed the road to what looked like a cute little ice cream shop - total rip-off! Overpriced and mediocre, with pixie-sized portions.

A short stroll through the hot streets and we were at the Centre-Pompidou. Thankful of our museum passes that let us in the shorter line and gave us a queue-jump to the galleries. Sophie preferred the Modern Art level (1905–1965), I loved the contemporary art level. So that’s 1965–present day. The sheer size and diversity of the artworks was just insane!

After weighing up the pros and cons of eating out (again) and jumping the Mètro back to near our hotel, we decided to walk to a little supermarket and get some bits for a cheapy picnic dinner in the hotel.