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Showing posts with label 5thArrondissement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5thArrondissement. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2011
St. Etienne Church
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5thArrondissement,
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JeanRacine,
Pantheon,
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Sorbonne,
StEtienne,
StGenevieve
Friday, October 21, 2011
The windows in our room (Judi and Sharon) were very tall skinny windows......OPEN all the time because there it was very hot and stuffy......no air conditioning. About 2AM it would cool down and we could sleep under a cover. ") Sometimes we even opened the door to our room to encourage a draft or draw of air through the windows and the room. It was such a surprise to some of neighbors in the adjoing room. LOL But, all in all, they would just smile and say good day or Bonjour. (We never left it open at night, of course!) The view from the window was across a private drive into the apartments you can see. We had some interesting views from this window. Every morning an old man would come out on his patio and draw or proof read a manuscript (well, that's our story, anyway! LOL). On school days the sounds of children skipping, laughing and talking would draw us to the window to see them being escorted by fathers/mothers down the drive and through the gate. The school was close by for we could hear the children in the day time playing on the grounds and also hear the school bell ring. Late at night we could hear the revelers from the local pubs/resteraunts as they laughed, talked and sometimes argued on the street just outside the drive gate.
This is the man on the patio to the left of our window. He was there every morning....very diligent on his work.
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5thArrondissement,
HotelDesGrandEcoles,
LatinQuarter,
Paris
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Shakespeare in Paris?
Judi is standing in front of one of the first "sights" that we visited in Paris. There were so many people inside and I was so jet-lagged that I just could not make myself go inside. This English language bookstore was opened about 1937 in tribute to one in the 6th arrondissement. It is also a reading library. This location had an appearance in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" movie. I really thought I'd come back later in the week and take a peek.......but with so many other plans daily, it just didn't happen.
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5thArrondissement,
Latin Quarter,
Paris,
Shakespeare
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