Tuesday - Paris
We are not really sure if it's 60 miles....of walking ....but perhaps. Or, more. We just know that every day on our journey we spend a lot of the day walking. But, that's how you get to know people, places and experience how life really is and soak up the culture and appreciate the history. While America is the best, our history is rather plebeian by comparison.
600 photos... Ah, more. I will likely spend a couple weeks putting together a video of our best photos and video to show you....if you are interested. So far all my planning has worked out perfectly without ever seeming structured or over organized. The weather has been spectacular and we have been healthy.
I am typing this from London since I am usually a day or so behind, have to good through tranferring photos off my phone onto the IPad for storage and then upload to the cloud and finally write in the blog and move photos into it. Sometimes connections are slow and Dawn says hurry up :-)
So off we went via the Uber taxi to the Latin Quarter... No not those 'Latins'. It's really the intellectual center of Paris in a way and where the Sorbonne is located. Then off to Rue Cler which is the shopping and market street for locals for the most part. We saw no tourists there and just breathed in the life of Parisians there. We stumbled into a cooking store there which was for mostly professionals cooks and were in heaven and, yes, we did happily drop some euros there!
We found the old tree in Paris, as you can see. Not too exciting but, hey, probably several thousand years old....from Roman times. And the smallest house in Paris...2 windows and a door wide.
I had on the list to find this shop near the Louvre which does wine tastings. They were booked. Darn.. But they squeezed in 4 more for the evening cruise on the Seine that was a 3 Champaign tasting and was a fantastic experience.. The Champaidns were superb and raised our standard for Champa ign that's for sure. The boat cruise started right at the Eiffel tour so that was nice too.
Back near our hotel, we had dinner near out hotel. It was another experience, for sure. An Italian restaurant run by Jews that was rather formal but with TV screens all around showing volleyball. The pasta was OK...but it was late and we were tired so no worries.
Guess that's it for now. Cheers, Bob
* oh the red head: I love taking photos of people when I can and thought she was an interesting subject. Sometimes I ask first and sometimes just wait for a chance.
The photos of Dawn below is a story to tell at home.
We are not really sure if it's 60 miles....of walking ....but perhaps. Or, more. We just know that every day on our journey we spend a lot of the day walking. But, that's how you get to know people, places and experience how life really is and soak up the culture and appreciate the history. While America is the best, our history is rather plebeian by comparison.
600 photos... Ah, more. I will likely spend a couple weeks putting together a video of our best photos and video to show you....if you are interested. So far all my planning has worked out perfectly without ever seeming structured or over organized. The weather has been spectacular and we have been healthy.
I am typing this from London since I am usually a day or so behind, have to good through tranferring photos off my phone onto the IPad for storage and then upload to the cloud and finally write in the blog and move photos into it. Sometimes connections are slow and Dawn says hurry up :-)
So off we went via the Uber taxi to the Latin Quarter... No not those 'Latins'. It's really the intellectual center of Paris in a way and where the Sorbonne is located. Then off to Rue Cler which is the shopping and market street for locals for the most part. We saw no tourists there and just breathed in the life of Parisians there. We stumbled into a cooking store there which was for mostly professionals cooks and were in heaven and, yes, we did happily drop some euros there!
We found the old tree in Paris, as you can see. Not too exciting but, hey, probably several thousand years old....from Roman times. And the smallest house in Paris...2 windows and a door wide.
I had on the list to find this shop near the Louvre which does wine tastings. They were booked. Darn.. But they squeezed in 4 more for the evening cruise on the Seine that was a 3 Champaign tasting and was a fantastic experience.. The Champaidns were superb and raised our standard for Champa ign that's for sure. The boat cruise started right at the Eiffel tour so that was nice too.
Back near our hotel, we had dinner near out hotel. It was another experience, for sure. An Italian restaurant run by Jews that was rather formal but with TV screens all around showing volleyball. The pasta was OK...but it was late and we were tired so no worries.
Guess that's it for now. Cheers, Bob
* oh the red head: I love taking photos of people when I can and thought she was an interesting subject. Sometimes I ask first and sometimes just wait for a chance.
The photos of Dawn below is a story to tell at home.
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