Paris - Day Seven - 1 April 2023

On our last full day in Paris, Lucy Jane trained up from Lyon for one more day of fun. We set out on foot to the Grand Mosquée for lunch in their Morrocan-style restaurant. Lucy introduced us to Paris busses and we rode to Sully-Morland in the Marais, and walked on to the Place des Vosges, where Lucy led us though the secret door in the south-west corner of the arcade into the garden of the Hôtel Sully. We pressed on to the area near the Paroisse Saint-Paul Saint-Louis. We jumped on the Metro to the Parc Monceau for some rest and refreshment before proceeding to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, an elegant Belle Epoque, Beaux-Arts mansion in the manner of 18th-century french design. In the evening we ventured back up the hill for a return visit to Le Vieux Bistrot. It was a delightful meal! Later that night I put LJ in a taxi to her tiny Airbnb.

🎶 April (1st) in Paris

Off for an adventure

Arènes de Lutèce - Roman amphiteatre

Grande Mosquée de Paris

Mosquée

The science of geometry was developed by Islam

The ladies

The Jardin d'Eden

Grilled lamb and frites

Same three

Mint tea

LJ descending toward the entrance gate

Splendid door at Sully-Morland

South entrance to the Place des Vosges

Brick-vaulted arcade of the Place des Vosges

Inlaid wooden door

The secret garden of the Hôtel de Sully

Hôtel de Sully entrance court

Miraculous sky over Saint-Paul Saint-Louis 

Pink!

Dans le Metro

Parc Monceau

The pause that refreshes

No tourists, just French parents and kids

I need the Wee Plant Man to tell me what these beauties are

He's a tall old feller

Deb's lovely photo of this folly

Musée Nissim de Camondo

The kitchen

Copper in the Kichen

A sitting room in the style of Louis XVI

Asian ceramics with French ormolu mounts

Neo-classical metal-arabesque wall panels

Very contemporary-looking tiles in the bathroom

Library detail

Entry court with stables, later garages

Rue Mouffetard for dinner

Savoy reblochon tartiflette is a sumptuous French version of 

funeral potatoes; beef bourgignon

LJ and Dickie

A rainy night on Rue des Ecoles

More to come.

OXO

D.