9/22/2014 – Monday
Breakfast is provided by the hotel so this will be
pretty much the same every morning.
We had:
Pineapple juice
Tea
Croissant and small pastry
Some mornings we
added scrambled eggs
We then took a city tour of Paris as part of the tour
package. We had plans to drop out of the
tour and go to the Musse D’Orsay but it got later and later before we reached
the museum so we decided to just stay with the tour. This tour was about 3 hours, 9 AM to 12 PM.
We went to lunch at a little crepe place across from the
hotel for lunch.
Lunch
Creperie La
Margasse
We had:
Bob – Gallette Complete aux Champognon
Iris – Gallette Napolitane
And we both had a glass of
vin blanc
In the afternoon Patrick, our tour director, took many of
the tour group to teach us how to use the Metro and then on a walking tour of the
Marais.
Very interesting district. It
began as a marsh and was developed for the poor or working class. When it was developed and the aristocrats saw how
beautiful it was they claimed it for themselves. It has some beautiful mansions that have been
turned into museums, or book stores. Victor Hugo lived in the Marais and his home
is now a museum. Patrick then took us to
the Metro station and left us on our own.
Bob and I walked to the Ile de la Cite (City Island) and Ile St. Louis (
St. Louis Island) and walked around
there. We stopped at a Café Panis across from Notre Dame and had an iced tea, I
had peach and he had citron. Then we
started back to the metro. Stopped and
had an ice cream cone at Bertillon’s.
Then we walked back to the metro and back to our hotel.
I hope no one ever says to me that the French are unkind or
unfriendly. When we were having our iced
tea Bob left the table for a few minutes.
My feet were really bothering me to the point I was ready to cry. The waiter came over to our table to ask if I
was OK. Then in the metro a woman
offered me her seat. We waited until the
last minute to try to make dinner reservations at a restaurant Bob wanted to go
to and they had no tables available until 9:00.
So we headed up our street to find a place to eat. We walked a couple of blocks and found Lebanese
restaurant
Dinner
Fakra Restaurant
We shared
Mezza for 2
(this was an assortment of different
dishes, such as Hummus, eggplant Lamb pastries.)
Wine – Ksara Reserve de Couvent – Bekaa Valley
Dessert – a
plate of Baklava and Mint Tee
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| Foch was France's leading general in WWI |
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| Getting ready for our walk in the Marias. Me in the foreground Mary (in orange) and her husband next to her Patrick in the gray short sleeved shirt. Patrick was our tour guide. |
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| Our walk in the Marais |
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| Our walk in the Marias |
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| Covered street in the Marais |
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| Apartment building in the Marais See the geraniums in the window boxes. Parisians do not have screens in their windows so they use geraniums to repel insects |
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| Me in the Marais district |
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| This is one of the oldest walls in Paris - it is from the original fortifications of the city. This is in the Marais |
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| Looking down the Seine |
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| Bob with Notre Dame in the background. We had just come from drinking the best iced tea |
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| Notre Dame |
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| Gardens at Notre Dame with Notre Dame in the background |
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| View of Ile St. Louis from the bridge between Ile de Le Citi and Ile St. Louis |
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| One of our many pictures of the Eiffel Tower This one was taken from across the river Seine |
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| The Bastille Monument |
