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First train, the airport shuttle at 9am
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Near our hotel, a large early lunch: ham and cheese and a salad with baked goat cheese croutons
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Window Figs
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Main staircase of the Opera Palace
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In the opera house
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Above the entry hall
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Gold everywhere
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Ornate ballroom at the opera palace
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Amidst all the shinery, a chagall ceiling mural
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They let the bees stay in the attic in exchange for Opera Honey
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Nearby, a famous ballet shoe store. We went in somewhat reverently, but just to look.
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Hedges for window boxes
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Open to interpretation
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There are two beautiful oval rooms with circular paintings of water lilies
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One of them cycles through the hours of the day
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and the other through the seasons
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The rooms are lit perfectly by daylight through diffuse skylights
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detail
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water lilies
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The sensation that these willow branches are in a breeze
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Another Derain
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Our hotel window in Paris
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A morning walk takes us through a tree-lined cemetery
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Where Ricardo le chat warranted the best headstone of the family
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George was the Boss, and hopefully a Tom Jones lover
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A tower amidst the packed tombs
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I liked the light on these windows
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Day two in Paris: sleep has been most helpful.
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First stop: the Max Poilane bakery
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A marionette theatre in the next door park
