Yes, I am going back to Paris!
Last week we were waiting for a heating Engineer to come and fix new radiators, except that he forgot about us and rearranged to come on Thursday! The apartment is lovely and warm now!
We'll get to the long walk in a little while....
...this is about the continuation of our walk on the Friday. We walked towards Notre Dame, the last time we were in Paris the devastating fire here happened as we reached London on our way home.
We stopped for a drink at a little cafe - freshly made lemonade - we shared the table with some chatty American students- we could see the repair work taking place!
We have never seen this little park before.
Shakespeare and Company, a famous bookshop selling books written in English - it has an interesting history!
We set off in the direction of City Pharma for my cut price French toiletries - choosing to take a route we had never taken...
...some interesting street art...
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old buildings...
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and...a cinema!!(It shows, amongst other things, old American classics)
A shady square was welcome near the metro!
The next morning, after a short walk to the art shop around the block from our hotel we set off to visit the Bois du Boulogne - we followed instructions to reach the park at the lake end. We walked from the Metro following the map, expecting to find somewhere to eat..by the time we reached this path(about a mile), all we had seen was a small grocery shop - so we doubled back and bought a very dry sandwich,nuts and water and then found a shady seat along this path.
Eventually we reached a lake, not THE lake, but we knew we couldn't be far away...surely??
Half a mile or so later we found this path ...
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and we found the lake!
We thought we might find a cafe in the park....but didn't expect it to be in the middle of the lake!
We walked down and bought a ticket...
A florist loaded on some flowers....
..when we arrived it seemed that not only could we not have a bite to eat but the only drink they would serve was tap water..lunch was over and a few stragglers were drinking wine but...
...as we sat there with our water they began to clear away the tables around us!!
Time to get back onto the ferry boat and head back..
...to where? We had no idea where the nearest Metro or bus was and there was just a huge car park when we got off!
Luckily a family was able to give us rough directions of where to head!
As we were on our way we heard some fantastic music!
Very entertaining, they were marching band practicing for a festival the next day!
We eventually crossed the Peripherique and back to civilisation!
.and the Metro..
..where a mix up getting off the metro too early led us to having a tonic water and lemonade at a hotel close to the Grande Arche..
...where there are super modern buildings....
We had to walk past this lovely misty area to get back on the Metro.
I hope you enjoyed our walk and sharing some drinks with us on our adventure - I am late posting so will get to visit soon!
For AEDM I shared some photos of beautiful Paris!
Thanks for looking, Chris
