W/Lill: Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Road Trip!), Champs Elysees (etc) and the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Montmartre; w/Windy: church tour; w/Windy and Darnelle: a fine outing with Tony. Also W&D enjoyed pedi-cab tours and shopping!
I WANT one of those things in the window.
It’s not like a mirror that reflects what it sees back at you but rather in this configuration it gathers up what it sees outside and presents you the whole scene inside so that you can sit on the couch and watch the clouds even though you can’t see the clouds from your seat. I NEED one of these things. Maybe several!
from Next.Paris.Fr: “The highest residential structure to be built in the capital since the 1970s, the ‘Home’ project in the new Paris Left Bank neighbourhood was inaugurated this week by the Mayor.
“Offering both social housing units and private residences, the ‘Home’ project is a striking architectural complex culminating at 50m in height, and is the largest development project in the capital since the work of Haussmann.”
There’s a whole neighborhood of these buildings, many streets and blocks, and Paris, according to Tony, was determined to keep it as mixed as possible by age, income, ethnicity, and use. Awesome.
This is another version of the cat image from my first Street Art tour that the graffiti guy, Eran, was going to save, and here is Le Chat again.
We are so close to that place, Les Frigos, the old refrigerating station, that we walked by and here is a wall I didn’t take a picture of before.
All around Paris you can find the old Wallace drinking fountains placed here beginning in the 1870s designed by Charles-Auguste Lebourg and named after the benefactor who financed the project.
This picture doesn’t belong here in time but I just took it off Lill’s camera.
I put the shot here to lead into this…
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…a modern drinking water dispenser, free, where you can get sparkling as well as still water. There are many of these around town too but not as many as the Wallace fountains and clearly not as beautiful. But modern. And you can get fuzzy water!
Our lunch, yum. I had to leave early to make it down to the Eiffel Tower in time to meet Lill for our Seine River Cruise!
The boat was packed but it was such a nice day everyone wanted to be on top. This went on for the whole hour.
The back of Notre Dame .. Our Lady. That’s why you see The Cathedral of Our Lady in this place and that place. But an unqualified Notre Dame – that’s her.
And back to our starting point. We enjoyed ourselves and then we ate two giant scoops of ice cream to top off the experience.
Our last dinner and we decided to all go together to a festive French meal. The unfortunate part is that Darnelle took a spill – she’s totally fine – but wasn’t up to this outing so I don’t think we have a single picture of we four together.
What a festive French meal it was! These were our table-neighbors, a very large group of young French folk I think from the countryside, maybe here for the sporting event?
There was a big festive brass band outside playing all sorts of music (you can catch a little of the tuba in the picture above) and several times the whole table broke into song with arm waving and delight. It was fun!
I have to put this where it belongs – another shot I took with Lill’s camera. She was over the moon to find so many of her countrymen right here in Paris, France for a big sporting event that they lost but everyone was having a huge fun time anyway.
