Abbatial Saint Germain

... kitchen wall (because it was red and matched the colour scheme), and then found out it was a real place on the Boulevard Saint Germain, just down the road from where we are staying. So we had a fabulous brunch experience with a very attentive ...

... Then began our real exploration of the "hood". We covered the Cluny Square, the Luxembourg gardens, Les Deux Magots on St Germain des Pres and nearby church, Les Invalides (the tomb of Napoleon and museum of the Occupation and Liberation of Paris), ...

We started the day with colours from the grey palette – softly falling, wetting rain, but even the rain in Paris is a thing of beauty. It seems to make the neon street lights translucent and the greenery in the window boxes greener. We ate our ...

... sing a little sunshine song. We did more walking today, across the Pont to the Rue Rivoli for croissants and coffee with the locals, past the Bastille and up the Rue de la Roquette to the Cimeterie du Pere Lachaise. An amazing cemetary filled with ...