The next day was our last full day in Paris and we began by recording the spiral staircase in the hotel
and then the elevator
before we went for a walk in the rain past the animal statues in the pet store part of Rue de Rivoli
and then we passed up an opportunity to Eat Fresh at Subway
and had coffee
which excited Suzanne
and made my finger stick on the camera key
at the Cafe Comptoir
before continuing on to the Pompidou Center
and on to the whimsical figures in the Stravinsky Plaza fountain
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which used up one battery
but there were pictures still to be taken on the new battery
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and then we were on to the Hotel de Ville
about which it was written
and beyond the fountains
you can focus in on the watch words of the revolution.
Next we walked through the Jewish area of the Marais which didn't work well because the Kosher places were closed on Shabat so we missed the fallafel stand
though the boulangerie
and Florence Finkelstein were opened
so that we could buy this latke
and then walk past this store front with the artwork of Niger
and after the Acmai de Chevaux
we went to the metro at Hotel de Ville
and rode on to Chatelet
so that we could make our way through the rain to meet Arlene and Michael for lunch
though they looked better once we dried off
as did Suzanne
and I
as we studied the menu at Fish la Boissonerie
with this friendly waitress
who brought us our bread
and wine
and my salad
and the other foods
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before the waitress took this group picture
before I recorded the art on their walls
and we made our way to the metro
for the journey to the cemetrie
where I recorded the locations of the famous buried there.
We began by exploring with no real agenda to understand the scope of the place which ws vast
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until Arlene asked these people for one of their maps which was forthcoming
and then we headed off
and found the grave of Jim Morrison
where crowds were
and even in a different view
we saw the crowds
before we headed to a number of touching Holocaust memorials
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and Spanish Civil War brigades
with beautiful flowers
as we passed through more Holocaust memorials
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before we happened on the grave of Gertrude Stein
and a memorial to those killed in a plane crash
before we found our way to the grave of Oscar Wilde
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and that of Georges Bizet
After a short rest, we headed to the Bistro Allard
where these were the salads
the breads
some main courses
Nancy and Bert our dinner companions
the other main courses
and our desserts
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