It
takes just over 2 hours to travel to Paris from Luxembourg on the fast (over
300 kmh ) train. So, we spent last weekend in Paris with the excuse that
Ingrid’s brother Tim and his wife Michelle were holidaying there. They had
rented a delightful top floor apartment in the Latin Quarter looking out over
rooftops to Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur and the Pompidou Centre in the distance.
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A
bonus to our trip was catching up with our friend Deb, our erstwhile colleague
from Munich who is now working in Paris. As might be imagined, we did a bit of
talking, eating, drinking and talking. Here we are dining at a café on some
side street I could never find again in the Latin Quarter.
In
between, as true tourists do, we wandered and gawked our way past Notre Dame
Cathedral, through the Marais district to Place des Vosges and then through the
(real) Left Bank alleys to the Boulevard St Germain. It was all so very, ah… , Parisian.
As
would be tradition with this blog, we now need a photo of a stairwell, a ceiling
and a galerie skylight. Well, here goes: these are the stairs leading up Tim
and Michelle’s top floor apartment. Beautiful and atmospheric, but a lift would
have been also.
Amazing
intricately decorated beam ceiling in the bookshop in the hotel Sully just off
the Place des Vosges. Nothing that a coat of white paint wouldn’t fix!
The recently
renovated hall at the Gare St Lazare. I was berated by a security official when
I put my backpack on the floor and gazed at this. It ruined the aesthetic moment
a little.
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