Our plan, on our penultimate day in Paris, was to visit the Orangerie for its Impressionist works, then walk to Notre Dame for the annual Fete du Pain in the cathedral's forecourt, and then walk back home through the fun St. Germain des Pres neighborhood. Like most plans, it did not survive first contact...but it worked out OK, even better in some respects.
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First contact...as Rickie Stevie advises, never leave anything
important until last... |
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| Previous visits to the Orangerie can be seen from here |
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| So we walked back through the Tuileries |
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| And the length of the Louvre |
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| Possibly where the break-in occurred |
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| Looking across the river, the Institut de France |
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| Sketching class |
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| Seen at a bouquaniste |
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| Not all river traffic is tourism; especially in the AM |
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| Tower of St. Jacques |
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| Conciergerie |
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| Finally we are at the Fete du Pain |
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| About which... |
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| Action shot |
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| Currently they are judging sandwich concoctions... |
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| Among the contestants |
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More entries; the judges dictate the main ingredients, you make a
sandwich out of them...we're talking French here, not PBJ or BLT;
these entries were made by a boulangere (female) |
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| Not far away, a guy is making croissants; the old-fashioned way |
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| Remember to stretch before rolling... |
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| Ample interpretive information (also: rounded=butter) |
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| The line to buy the goodies... |
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| Was actually longer than the line to get into the cathedral |
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