Today, was a lot of walking - along Boulevard St. Germain, which is always a good people watching exercise.
In any event, tonight I went to a concert at Saine Chapelle - the wonderful church on Ile de la Cite that I described before. It was a wonderful collage of baroque music - with the harpsichord (not my favourite instrument) and a violin and clarinet. It was a wonderful setting in the old church, after a entry through the Palais de la Justice, as described in my earlier blogs. |
| Walking through the Palais de Justice |
I was expecting to walk home tonight and have a lovely dinner at some cafe. Unfortunately, it didn't out that way - by the time I got to the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) there were so many crowds that you could hardly get down the street. I don't know what is happening but it is frightfully busy and crowded. I couldn't even get into a neighbourhood restaurant that I wanted to try out.
Even now, the crowds have spread to my neighbourhood and there is lot of noise, etc. I really don't know if this is normal (although I didn't seen to notice last Friday) or if I'm just getting old and stuffy!! Maybe the young people are storming the Bastille and I haven't been told!!!
In any event, I have three more days en Paris - will report in due course....
