Hotel Mistral Paris

... ; get along! Jen and I had a bit-o-vino at the closest café and made our way to meet my new pal Simon in the café Mistral.  We had another very friendly chat and some more vino, watched the Eiffel Tower do its light show over the Seine at 9:00 and ...

... the smaller Musee D'Orsay and eventually want to make it to the Rodin Museum. It's closed on Mondays. My favorite part of Paris in Momartre. I could wander the streets forever. The first thing on the list there is the crepe stand just across from the ...

... that crazy roundabout and we went around it four times!  Great stuff. After the Arc we successfully navigated our way through the Paris Metro down to Notre Dame.  This cathedral is cooler than a lot of the ones we've seen on this trip thanks ...

... . Part of the same block is a Franciscan monastry which now houses a small museum that includes a room dedicated to Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1945. When she died she requested that she be buried ...

... booked and Le Tinel has closed. We headed to the higher part of town to the reliable St Andre restaurant which again had Mistral for accompaniment but we found a table partially indoors that provided a little shelter both from the wind and the fierce sun. ...

... carrier outlet called Orange Télécom on Rue de la République, a 10-minute stroll from the hotel along the deserted, sleepy avenue Frédéric Mistral. In stark contrast to this morning's bustling commotion at the airport, the atmosphere here seemed more ...

Lucy asked for it and we got it.  Today we experienced the beginning of the Mistral season.  Each fall and winter Provence is swept by a wailing wind.  Lucy made the mistake of saying that she'd be interested in being here for that. ...

... very unusual; this was the first time she had seen it this way as the area we were travelling through is known for its "mistral" winds.  It is always nice and balmy in the provence portion of France.  Well, today the winds were not blowing and ...

... about the weather and she says her computer has it as Sunny for the rest of the week. Great I say. 'But you will have the mistral' she laughed.  We English would say it was unsettled. As we try to talk Ganache has her jaws round my leg in that ...