It seems I have returned to prime critter season, not only fending off a huntsman easily the size of my hand upon days of arrival, only this morning seeing the shadowed approach of massive legs and cephalothorax across the opposite side of the shower glass and even rescuing a meter long grass snake from the clutches of my cat but three days ago - ( Read more... )

best way to describe sainte chapelle is in pictures, so sorry to those of you using dialup
( Sainte Chapelle divides the classes with Extreme Decadence )

I just ate the most unethical meal ever.

Jean-Claude treated Françoise and I to dinner at Le Bofinger (it doesn't sound that funny in french... actually, I lie, it's still pretty funny), near the Bastille. After the absolutely amazing meal, fois gras, veal fricassée and sorbet, we took the heavenly walk back across Paris to Montparnasse ( Read more... )

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Musée Rodin

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First few jaunts around Paris included:

Champs Elysées (place de la concorde) Saturday evening - just before my camera ran out of battery

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My great friend, Carolina, and her darling mumsy are putting me up in Paris for eleven days, from Thursday. I'm going so early, bc C will be jetsetting off elsewhere on Sunday and it'll be wonderful to see her before she does ( Read more... )