Paris in October.

We have arrived safely in Paris.  It’s overcast and a bit humid.  ~ 62 degrees. 

Cool hotel! 

We walked a great deal around our hotel this morning.  We stumbled across the most beautiful park ever.  Jardin Du Luxembourg.  The leaves are changing and it is a wonderful blend of reds, yellows browns and green.  The park is filled with awe inspiring vistas at every turn.  Joggers pepper the park as well as chess and tennis players.  Several artists are painting and there are wonderful little areas with seating for meditation or reading or simply people watching.  I want to spend every Friday afternoon in a Parisian park whiling away the hours!   

This lion appears to have captured an ostrich!!

There is also an amazing playground for children with some really fun equipment.

There is a palace that has become the Senate.  This park was commissioned by Marie de Medicis, wife of Henri IV in 1615 and was designed to resemble her childhood Florentine home.  The park does in fact resemble Florence.  Lovely indeed!   

After much walking we stopped at a small restaurant for lunch.  Pat ordered a Calzone.  We were both very excited.  It’s been such a long time since he’s had an old favorite Calzone. 

 …… it had an EGG inside!!!   

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city? You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

-Owen Wilson ~Midnight in Paris

We have a room in St Lucia that looks over the Pitons.  The room has no outer walls.  The views are wide open and breathtaking.  Our bathroom is wide open and outdoors as well. 

We have a bird that shares our bathroom mirror.  It's in love with the 'other' bird it sees. Our bird wakes early and visits itself first thing.  It's typically dark outside.  It talks and talks to the good looking friend in the mirror.  It can talk for hours!  The mirror's always a mess.  : )

 

 

 

Later that day...

We visited a tiny village called Soufriere. We stopped at a little restaurant along the waterfront.  This was on the menu....

 



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Grand Pitons

St Lucia

 



St Lucia

Full moon in the Pitons tonight.

Brush the cobwebs from your daydreams

The best reason to travel is not to discover new places; it is to discover what you could become after being affected by your destination. ...Pick your destinations wisely.

An amazing peek into Zagreb Croatia.  We loved this city. 

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