On the Eurostar on the way to Paris
A pigeon made her nest in one of the flowerpots outside our host's bedroom window. There are two babies, and boy are they ugly.
In the center of Place de la Republique.
Weight Watchers in France is SO much cooler.
St. Ambroise Church in the 11th
Place de la Bastille (a traffic circle called such, not the actual Bastille)
weekly market near Place de la Bastille
A pretty church
Entrance to Place des Vosges
Inside Place des Vosges
Church of St. Paul St. Louis
Courtyard in Musee Carnavalet -- Museum of Paris
Guimauve - giant, handmade marshmellows
Mmm, lemon guimauve. SO good.
front of Hotel de Ville
A newstand cyclist!
Part of the "Paris Plage" -- Paris beach -- they've set up along the Seine. Nevermind that it was not exactly hot ...
dancing along the Seine
A poorly executed photo. But that's cheese, warm baguette, Seine River.
The secret to how we remember what we ate: photograph the menu. :) This is at Astier, a nice French bistro
Appetizers -- I had smoked herring in olive oil (the huge thing on the bottom left -- serve yourself what you want, then he comes and whisks it away.) John had a mackerel salad thing on toast with julliened green apple. Both were delicious.
Exhibit A: The smoked herring.
Note the GIANT bowl at top center: Those are our veggies. Zucchini, eggplant, haricots verts, steamed or something with ungodly amounts of butter. I put a fine dent in them. When the waiter came, he says, "Ah, you did not fee-nish your veg-et-a-bles. No chis for you!"
our entrees -- I had chicken, john had steak
That? is the "chis" I wasn't to have because I didn't fee-nish my veg-et-a-bles. 16 different kinds -- slice off what you want before they whisk the platter away.
Mmm, cheese.
I had peaches marinated in masala wine for dessert; john had chocolatey goodness.
Kiwi the bunny
Louvre
Look, here's one with the WHOLE Eiffel tower.
These are the city-wide bikes, called Velib. Get a pass (we got a 1-week pass for 5 euro). Check out a bike. Go. There will no doubt be a Velib station wherever you're going. And, if you get there in under 30 minutes, it's free. Or, after 29 minutes, pull into a Velib station, check in your bike, check it out again, and you've bought another free 30 minutes.
The pigeons were a little less ugly by the end of our trip.
inside St. Sulpice
Ecole Militaire, opposite the Eiffel tower
Delicious bistro we ate at on our last night in Paris.
Konica Minolta in Paris!
Kiwi the bunny doing his trick.
