Il fait froid a Paris!
It is nearly as cold as Boston! The weather has been in the upper 20's (Fahrenheit) during the day --and we got some snow on Monday! Not much, but a couple of inches... and then it got cold. Paris windy in the winter --the north of France is rather flat and those cold winds come across the channel and some down from Scandinavia... like those Arctic blasts from Canada (but really less cold!).
Gives justification to those who wear all those fur coats...
We spent the weekend after New Year with our friends Jacqueline and Philippe in Lyon --we arrived as Pere et Mere Noel bearing many things that are not returning home with us (we should have brought more!). Those "few" things we brought must have reproduced on their own... I think that the problem is that we are trying to pack Paris in our bags... along with the French country side... and it won't fit. There's the olive oil from Nyons, a few bottles of wine from the Rhone, fleur de sel from Normandy, the poele from Dehellerin, the herbal soap from Provence... and the fabulous Nespresso machine (I already had a 220 plug installed in our kitchen!).
But, I have solved a mystery! I now know why all the Asian tourists take photos of every painting in a museum! They cannot carry all the books! And I am spending 45E for 7 kilos of the Louvre, Emil Nolde exposition, Musee d'Orsay, the Bayeux Tapestry, and then all the churches!
Easy to transport to you:
The Thinker in the garden at the Rodin Museum.
Shadow puppets from the Chat Noir theater at the Musee d'Orsay.
Winged Victory at the Louvre.
And this is going to our house!
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