Wandering Around Paris: October 5

Stranger, beware, there's love in the air...

Wednesday morning Al still wasn't feeling good (he had a sore throat most of the time in Paris), so I went out on my own to walk nowhere in particular. I did this in Stockholm, Helsinki, Leningrad and London. You get to see neighborhoods that aren't on the usual tourist track, but if limited for time in a city you won't get to see all the famous places...it's a tradeoff. Worked out great for me in Leningrad as I got lost in a poor neighborhood where the women stood for hours in line for their weekly ration of bread. Anyway, on this day I walked south as far as Blvd Montparnasse and back by way of the Luxembourg Gardens. I went into a couple neighborhood churches. One displayed what seemed to be a corpse of St Vincent de Paul after whom the church was named.

I went back to the hotel to find Al feeling better. He had gone out to the d'Orsay Museum and got us five-day passes to most museums, so we wouldn't have to stand in line to buy tickets...a great idea! Off we went to the Marais district for lunch and then to the Museum Carnavalet for a look at 18th and 19th Century Parisian history. In the nearby Place de Voges we toured Victor Hugo's house. That evening we saw the famous Bejart Ballet at the Theatre du Chatalet and were bored to death.