Ever More Seemingly Random...

Tuesday morning Vicki had her pastry class at La Cuisine Paris, on Rivoli near the Pont Louis-Philippe, and, to pass the time, I did the flaneur thing, more genuinely, walking in the 3rd and 4th, both fairly familiar from previous Paris visits. Wednesday morning, we did a longer walk in the Luxembourg Garden while the apartment was being cleaned (it's a "serviced" appartement, serviced weekly). More of the flaneur/flaneuse thing. Sort of.

The school; next week she does tartes

Star baker; the class focused initially on croissants, but
quickly got into several types of pastries, and even
included that most decadent/delectable kouign aman;
imagine having real kouign aman in Orlando in July

Celebrating the 475th anniversary of the Bouquinistes...

Passing by a bead store favored by Penelope,
on Rue de Temple

Holy kilt, Batman!

Marais art

One of the good things about Bowelist architecture is that when it
finally gets renovated you hardly notice the scaffolding...(the
Pompidou museum)

Also undergoing serious renovation...one of our favorite department 
storer in Paris...where department stores are still a thing)

Hotel Rivoli, where we and the girls stayed in 1989; we
wonder whether they've put in an elevator since then...
it was 88 steps up to our room...

Attempted artsy-fartsy shot...then I noticed I was standing
at the entrance to the Maison Europeene de la Photographie

Hauling a load of gravel down river...probably headed for the paths
of the Tuileries or Bois de Boulogne

Rare port-side view of the Hotel de Ville

Lunch at Le Louis Philippe; my salad Nicoise not pictured...

Click to enlarge and be amazed...Le Bel Canto...
a dinner theater where (apparently) the serveurs and
serveuses sing operatic stuff at your table..."can you
do the Ride of the Valkyries?" "Maybe the Love-Death?"

Unicycle bass

Interesting pose...Marguerite d'Angouleme, Queen of
Navarre, 1492-1549, in the sculpture-studded Luxembourg,
most of whose sculptures are women...

But we were there mostly for the flowers

Medici Fountain

Monument to students in the Resistance

All-weather bullet-proof guard station outside the Senat

As far as the eye can see...French order imposed on Nature...

Delacroix monument now somewhat obscured in 
the renovation area

Among several walking groups that morning

Peering into the palace's orangerie, where they're now moving the
more tender trees back outside