Saturday, November 1, 2014

As we have said on other occasions, La Comedia è finita. (from the opera  I Pagliacci)

We leave Orly airport on an Open Skies flight at 1:30 and arrive in Newark at about 5:30.

We hope you have enjoyed our blog. Please let us know if you have questions or comments. We will let you know when our next one will be published.

In the meantime, here are some more interesting photos of Paris that you might enjoy.

A Shar Pei guarding the shop.

Some more graffiti. 

A shop window.

Jose behind the bar at Le Sancerre.

Art is my work.

An interesting, colorful doorway.

Friday, October 31, 2015

Today, our last full day, we met an old friend, Steve, for a drink. We met him, at the newly reopened Picasso Museum and found a café that had a free table that was almost outside. It was another lovely day and the cafés were mobbed. After about an hour, we said goodbye to Steve for another year and went off to the Mariage Frères tea room and shop for tea and a dessert. We had a lovely tea (they have hundreds of different kinds available) and a fabulous raspberry tart.

We went back home and did some preliminary packing before we went out for our last meal in Paris for this trip. Erwin had noticed at his morning coffee that the Café Sancerre, our favorite local haunt, was having as one of its specials, Brandade, which we happen to like very much so we went there for an early dinner since we had an early start Saturday morning. Click here to read all about brandade.

We will miss Sancerre and will look forward to being there again next June when we hope to spend ten day in Paris after singing in Ireland the week before.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Today we had a restful day after the tennis. We walked up to the park that we had told you about on October 3 called Square Emile-Chautemps. We then went to the Café de la Gaité for a sit and a drink. This is a nice place for people-watching too.

In the evening, we went to the Montparnasse area where we had dinner in one of our favorites, Le Bistrot du Dôme. They serve nothing but seafood. I had the solettes (baby sole).

Alexandria had risotto with langoustines.

We had a favorite for dessert. Baba au Rhum, which is a kind of sponge cake doused in rum and topped with cream.

On the way home, we passed this building. Quite a sight at night!