clgoss77: Our hotel room at Les 3 Poussins.
clgoss77: Rue des Martyrs Shops
clgoss77: Rue des Martyrs Shops
clgoss77: Rue des Martyrs Shops - I've never seen sea urchins for sale before.
clgoss77: We got lunch from a cute boulangerie/patiserie and then ate it on the steps of l'Opera.
clgoss77: Nom, nom, nom.
clgoss77: Shaun standing in line to purchase a loaf of pain de campagne from a boulangerie by our hotel.
clgoss77: Night scene on the Rue des Martyrs
clgoss77: I never get tired of Citröen 2CVs.
clgoss77: On the way to Gare du Nord - this street reminds me of Canal St. leading up to the Garden in Boston.
clgoss77: In front of the Café de Flore.
clgoss77: We're averaging three cups of espresso per day.
clgoss77: St. Sulpice
clgoss77: St. Sulpice
clgoss77: The pipe organ in St. Sulpice is one of the largest in the World with 6,588 pipes.
clgoss77: St. Sulpice
clgoss77: The "Meridien Line" within St. Sulpice. The church points out repeatedly that everything Dan Brown wrote about this in "The DaVinci Code" is wrong. In reality it's an astronomical instrument from the 18th century.
clgoss77: After the organ concert you could stand in line to go upstairs and see the innards of the organ and meet the organist.
clgoss77: More stairs.
clgoss77: Shaun's peeking through the stained glass at the Mass going on below. "What's going on down there?"
clgoss77: The view of St. Sulpice from the organ loft.
clgoss77: This gentleman is the organist at St. Sulpice - he's an outstanding musician and very friendly, even with my broken French.
clgoss77: Marché Aux Puces. Any antique you could possibly want is available here...for beaucoup des Euros.
clgoss77: Marché Aux Puces. I've never seen so many chandeliers and mirrors in my life.
clgoss77: Marché Aux Puces. Missing hardware in your Parisien second home? It's probably available here.
clgoss77: Marché Aux Puces. It was a slower day - behind Shaun you can see a bunch of the vendors playing cards.
clgoss77: Marché Aux Puces.
clgoss77: Dogs were more than welcome at the Marché Aux Puces. In fact dogs and cigarette smoke were EVERYWHERE.
clgoss77: We had dinner in the Restaurant Chartier.
clgoss77: Restaurant Chartier: after you enter from the street you walk down a little alley.