Today was a vacation from the vacation. We’ve been walking our legs off for ten days now checking out everything that was on our list of things to see and do. We woke up this morning to a heavy cloud…
LA MADELEINE
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MARCHE AUX PUCES DE ST-OUEN
Today we went to a flea market that boast it is the biggest flea market in the world. It has 2500 stalls broken up into 10 different street areas each with it’s own speciality. Thousands of people come here every…
MONTMARTRE
It was a miserably rainy day but we headed out into the city anyway. Soon the rain stopped and then as we began our climb to the Basilique Du Sacre-Coeur the rain came pouring out of the sky. Luckily there…
LOUVRE
We had rain and the sky for most of the day was dark and threatening. There was quite a bit of wind so we ate in a cafe rather than sitting outside where we could watch people passing by. Then…
DUSK ON A STREET IN PARIS
I don’t have much time to blog this morning. But I thought I’d do just a little writing this morning before we leave for one of the museums. The days are long in Paris. This photos is of a street…
A LEASURELY WALKING DAY IN PARIS
It’s interesting to be in a city and have no real commitments, no work, with family and friends thousands of miles away. Today we picked a location and simply walked. We are big people watchers and in Paris there is…
YOUR LUCKY DAY SCAM
We got a bit of money changed at the airport, the rate wasn’t that good so we got only enough exchanged to pay for the bus to get us into the middle of Paris and another bit of money for…
FARMERS COMING INTO PARIS FOR EXPO
THE FARMERS ON THE CHAPMPS-ELYSEE Our first day in Paris we took a walk to the Champs-Elysee and happened onto one of the biggest expositions I have ever attended. There was lots of activity with tucks and vegetables and stands…
FIRST FULL DAY IN PARIS
The first full day in Paris, with a beautiful blue sky and a bright sun that paints deep shadows along the building facades; it’s early for Parisians on this Saturday morning, nothing is open and we are starving. So we…
SOCCER BALL FOR DEVON
I wrote this following piece five years ago. I tried to get it published in a quilt magazine, but it was rejected. I never posted it on my blog, who knows why. Well, here it is years later. Devon is…