Paris 2021 Day Three

Can't start the day without a short walk to Anthony Bosson for a fresh baguette. After breakfast we went back to finish up the Sainte-Germaine area. The church is lovely with colorful paint and fall light streaming through stained glass. Marched a few blocks up to Sainte-Sulpice where there is an antiques fair annoyingly cluttering the Place Sainte-Sulpice and its treasured Wallace Fountain. Went by Metro to Les Halles, thence to the Centre Pompidou, and more importantly to Bachir for Lebanese ice cream with crushed pistachios. Late lunch near Les Halles at Le Petit Bouillon Pharamond, followed by a long trudge to the far side of Le Marais to visit Merci, a fun, hip store featured by designmom. Home by Metro with a freakish encounter with what we thought must have been pickpockets Their plan was scuttled by the lead man who dropped his earbuds on the escalator steps and wouldn't move (that may have been their plan). I toppled over him and landed on the ground while Stephen screamed, "Check your valuables; these guys are pickpockets." They didn't get any of our stuff, but the encounter certainly gave me a bruised knee and a rush of adrenalin.

We are on the 6th floor (7th American), so 

if "l'ascenseur ne marche pas,"

we are screwed!

Fresh-baked bread every morning

Morning light floods the flat: most pleasant

Sainte-Germaine-des-Pres

Colorfully painted stone

Colorful apse

Autumn light through stained glass colors the walls

Nothing says France to Kris like geraniums

SKT (far left) is our own Ernest Hemingway, 

who loved Les Deux Magots

Modern sculpture with ancient church

Kris found her favorite dragée (Jordan almonds) at this sweet little

shop on the Rue Bonaparte near Sainte-Sulpice

Rather simple French Baroque

These ladies are trapped inside 

the antiques market: tragic!

Detail of an incredible painted door frame: hundreds

of years of paint layers sanded to reveal these splendid colors

Kris approved

Super tasty

Inside the Pompidou

Groundbreaking work of Richard Rogers 

and Renzo Piano, 1971

A different perspective

La Petit Bouillon Pharamond

Hand-polished (literally) final on the banister

Crème brûlée: I love egg custard!

An Instagram "moment" for influencers like me: I

should have done a selfie: opportunity lost!

That's it for day three, but there will be more.

OXO

D.