03 – Paris – Day 3
Day 3 – May 2, 2009
(above) After a
total knock out night of sleep, and another sidewalk café breakfast, we are going
public trans once again…Here on a moving sidewalk towards another subway train…
(above)
First stop, the National Public Library…Ann is getting her Masters
Degree in Library Sciences and was keen to see France’s finest…
(above) From the library we went here, a big deal Warhol exhibit…200+ pieces…Very, very impressive…
(above) Just a staircase in the exhibit hall…
(above) After Warhol we were famished, so hit the
streets and found a wonderful bakery, loaded up on the good stuff, then walked
to this park and watched the kids play while we ate…
(above) This guy was a street juggler…The world’s
worst street juggler…I was laughing out loud he was so bad…but he could tie a
mean balloon dog…An important life skill…
(above) French
kids still play ‘Catch Me’…
(above) Saturday in the park…
(above) Next to the part is a pedestrian street, with fresh food stands…dozens of ‘em…
(above) You think
they have flavor…???...
(above)
Fresh from the trees…
(above) We bought
some of these for after dinner tonight…
(above) And some
of these for the train ride tomorrow…
(above) Local
color…
(above) Fresh cut
ready for a vase…
(above) On the
street was this church built in the 1500’s…Pretty typical…
(above) An
elaborate wall mural over one of the cheese stores…
(above) That
cheese store…There were at least a half dozen similar cheese stores on the
street…
(above) Ann was
in cheese shopping heaven…
(above) Someone
fits right in…
(above) Shellfish
anyone…???...
(above) How about
some shrimp…???...
(above) If the
walking and shopping get to be too much, there is always a sidewalk café to
ease your hunger and a seat to rest your feet…
(above) Pastries
with some coffee perhaps…???..
(above) This
revolving rack of rotating spits, was cooking up some fine smelling roasting
meats…Potatoes at the bottom…
(above) There
were wines available…One store’s offerings…
(above) And
across the way and up a few places was this one…
(above) This wine
merchant and Ann were discussing the subtleties of the vintages…
(above) More
cheeses…
(above) This guy
had this hand crank player pipe organ thing…The folding paper on the right is
cranked through to the left and the device plays some sweet sounding music…The
guy cranking sings along…Very, very,cool…
(above) We
watched him do his thing while we had an ‘express’…
(above) Street
life,
(above) After the
sensory overload of that street we hit this side street and walked our way back
to the Metro…
(above)
(above) Before
heading back to the Hotel de Lorraine we hit the bakery for some baked goods
for the evening and for tomorrows train ride…
(above) Almost
there…
(above) No doubt about it now…
More later …
Paul