Arriving in Paris at 7.30am yesterday meant I had two full days of a flying visit – cool wind, clear skies, and a pleasant 25 degrees shorts and T’shirt couple of days!
Taxi to my friend Sally’s house in Clichy and a day of catching up, making new friends at the local bar and sampling the local beer! And…. getting to know Sally’s Roommate ‘Bert’ not to be confused with Bird!
A Salad for tea – made by yours truly and an early night….Kevin having stopped overnight in Korea arrived at his hotel around 9pm by which time I was already sleeping!
This morning Kevin made his way to Sally’s and after a catch up, we left Sally to get on with her work and went for a stroll around the local area…taking a coffee at my new favourite bar…
Surrounded by the colours of summer…
Spying on our (foot) travels the artwork exhibition of Philippe Katherine…these pink sculptures leaping out to greet the locals and tourists…
Then there’s the more traditional thin version of sculptures….and the blonde!
We headed back to Sally’s apartment to collect Sal and head off for lunch at a local cafe…spoiled for choice – another delicious salad, to cleanse our bodies of the stodgy airplane food.
Around 3.30pm Kevin and I bid adieu to Sally and taxied to Montparnasse to our hotel for the night in readiness for an early morning train trip from here to Fumel, Kevin and Roland’s abode in the South of France.
The Taxi ride was an interesting one, our driver and another taxi driver had a lane altercation early on in the piece, and then happened to end up side by side at each set of lights for the next 10 kms, winding down their windows and yelling loudly at each other until the lights changed…in French, the tone of voices confirmed the ongoing argument!
We finally arrived at our Hotel after 4pm, took off to look for some juice and fruit for our dinner, and something to ease my increasingly sore throat! Not sure if this is happening from the pollution or a cold coming on – nothing a rest in my air-conditioned room, and some quiet time won’t fix I’m sure!
On a final note, Montparnasse, the train hub to the south and a rather touristy area is very colourful with a definite floral theme…
Cafes abound the intersections and streets in this vicinity – I’m leaning towards MamyRosa if a cocktail beckons as the evening closes in.
All who wander are not Lost girls 