I know I posted this already, but yesterday was Hideko and Jamie's anniversary!! It was a great day to celebrate, and we did our best to fill it to the brim! We began wandering around the Latin Quarter seeking a restaurant to make dinner reservations; turned out it ws closed on Mondays, so we'll try again today. Here is one of the buildings up there:
Narrow, winding streets--picturesque!
Narrow, winding streets--picturesque!More of the iron work that makes Paris look Parisian:
And--surprise!--ranks of chimney pots!!!
All the way to Montmartre next, up to Place du Tertre, although the 'place,' or open space like a town square, is now full of cafe tables!
We enjoyed a lovely meal here of moules (mussels--freaking amazing!) and frites (they don't call them French fries), another Croque Monsieur (grilled ham and cheese just a little different and so good,) and, to maintain some nutritional standard, a salad with tasty tomatoes! We shared all three, a lovely meal outdoors in a place I'd eaten twice before--fun to be back!
The perimeter of the Place is lined with artists selling their wares--
See?! It's after 9:30, and the sunset is just beginning to reflect on the Musee d'Orsay!Great fun to wander around and gawk, some were doing sketches or caricatures of people.
The to Sacre Coeur--remember this take from the Eiffel Tower?
It's a magnificent, majestic building, different from the Gothic churches all around the city. Naturally no photographs were allowed inside; it is decorated with mosaics.
Notice the ironwork on the doors.
For a lazy, inexpensive dinner (hopefully saving up for the nice place tonight!) we sat in a cafe for a couple hours like real Frenchies, staying out until our 9:30 boat tour down the Seine began. We hoped to see the Illuminations, but one problem: it's almost the summer solstice, and it just didn't get dark until the cruise was over! Still it was lovely being on the water...
That's Sacre Coeur on the hill, far away...
and now, approaching from the shady side,
and seen from the front:
It's a magnificent, majestic building, different from the Gothic churches all around the city. Naturally no photographs were allowed inside; it is decorated with mosaics.When Chuck and I walked to Sacre Coeur from our hotel in Montmartre those years ago, we saw a cemetery of little house tombs; this year Hideko, Jamie and I walked through the peaceful, almost quiet place in a swale within the city:
Notice the ironwork on the doors.Back down the hill now to wander the Marais district, but we were side-traced by this fountain adjacent to Pompidou Center--It is named for Igor Stravinsky, the composer--
Isn't it fun? What a place to meet a friend on a day like this!
Eiffel Tower not yet illumined, but suprising every time I see it--
It's getting a little darker...
It's getting a little darker...Walking home following the cruise, Notre Dame was lit up--lovely!!!
Isn't that something! I really am in Paris!!! Dr. Seuss was right when he wrote,
"Oh, the places you'll go!"
A demain!
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