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I’m guessing that this was submitted as part of the Paris series, but I somehow missed that! Oh well, lunch in Paris works for me any time.
One of our favorite places to pick up a bite to eat while wandering the Jewish Quarter. Pretty popular if not exactly haute cuisine.
This is a lunch line. It’s pretty impressive, perhaps 50 meters long. You may wonder what french delight the draw is.
This is our last submission in this Paris After Dark series, so starting tomorrow we are back to just the morning OTR for awhile.
After our tour on Normandy in 2014, we took a day trip to Mont Ste Michel, then headed back to Paris. On the way we stopped in Giverny for a few hours.
I’m a bit fuzzy on which part of the site these pictures were taken – the captions are my best guess. They are all from early August that year and they were all taken by my wife who has a better eye, not me.
Monet’s house and garden
My sweetie and I visited Paris in December of 2018 and had a little 3rd floor flat a block from the Pantheon and the Sorbonne. It’s a great time to visit, uncrowded and relaxed, and the weather was only slightly colder than San Francisco. This is eight photos out of hundreds. I hope you enjoy.
It’s Paris! You have to have a picture of the Tour Eiffel!
(Our daughter spent a year at the University of Grenoble. In June we headed to Europe to help her pack up for home. Our first trip to Europe since our honeymoon… ) After we left Grenoble we took a couple sides trips (Copenhagen; Trondheim), then headed to the medieval village of Limeuil in the Périgord region of southwestern France, at the confluence of the Dordogne and Vézère rivers. Not far from the famous caves of Les Eyzies. My British sister-in-law’s parents have a cottage there (her father taught at the Sorbonne) and we arranged to stay for a week. And pretend we were French. Sort of.
View of the two bridges that cross the Dordogne and Vézère rivers.
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Our daughter spent a year at the University of Grenoble. In June we headed to Europe to help her pack up for home. Our first trip to Europe since our honeymoon… We finished up in Paris, staying at a youth hostel across the River Seine from Nortre Dame. Affordable even if they had a curfew and we slept on bunkbeds with the washroom across the hall. Breakfast’d with British schoolkids on a field trip and their harried teachers.
View from our hostel room. There was a church across the alleyway, and a shop next to the hostel run by nuns who sold honey & such. Plus an outdoor Moroccan restaurant in the alley with café lights strung overhead. Simple and delicious.
While a lot of the really touristy things in Paris are entirely skippable, here are some that you really should do. One of them is taking a boat ride on the Seine. It’s a great way to get off your feet for a while, and it also gives you a different perspective on the city. There are boats that just do a circuit from roughly the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame and back, and there also are boats where you sit down for lunch or dinner; we’ve done both. These photos are from a dinner cruise, arranged by our Parisian friend, as we never would have thought of it ourselves.
Here’s the entrance to the boat slip. You take steps down the wall that surrounds the river. (They’re pretty tall – the river is a good 15 feet or more below street level, as you’ll see from later photos.)
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These photos are from a day we spent wandering in the northeastern part of Paris, around the 19th Arrondisement. There is, it turns out, a canal there. We walked a good chunk of it, taking in the sights and the sun, ending at a park called La Villette.
Okay, so I’m starting with a railing. But it’s a nice railing. There are a lot of nice railings in Paris.
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