Breakfast was café crème at the corner café next to our hotel along with croissants, a baguette with jam and butter and a glass of orange juice.
We started with the Pere Lachaise cemetery and visited the graves of Jim Morrison (very popular), Malosevich, Marcel Marseau and Chopin (who isn’t there, his body is back in Poland where he was born). We went back to the hotel and packed up for our picnic at the Jardin Luxembourg.
After first trying to set up on one grassy area, we were chased away by the garden police. Apparently that grass was part of the gardens and we were pointed to the picnic grass. There we shared jambon, cheese, cherries, tomatoes, a baguette and a bottle of sparkling Vouvray wine (from Moncotour, Lynn’s favorite). Then we hopped the Metro to Notre Dame and then walked to the Musee d’Orsay but it was closing soon so we decided to wait for the next day to enjoy it. While near the Musee d’Orsay we saw a clarinet player with a “band in a box” playing wonderful classical music while a crazy man danced and conducted the virtual orchestra.
While walking towards our hotel we stopped at a little café to use their toilettes. We bought a diet coke and an iced tea the added a burgundy blanc and a burgundy rouge as they were cheaper than the pop and iced tea.
Back at our hotel we stopped in the little market next door and purchased 2 liter bottled water for 0.20 euros and more sparkling Vouvray to share
on our first night on the boat.
Next we were off to the Arc de Triomphe, walked to the top, took pictures and walked down the Champ d’Elysees. We returned to Carmine’s for twelve escargot and a Caesar salad with the most moist sliced chicken breast we had ever had.
Done with dinner and off to bed.