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We are using the RER - regional express rail to get
around Paris. It is a double decker underground train.
Very colorful and empty. |
We left our Florida home Monday at noon. We arrived in Paris at 8 am Tuesday. Wednesday morning we woke up at the proper time to go out and tour around.
We never visited the French National Library before - so we took the train from our apartment up the Seine River to the library. It is a giant steel and glass complex - not a hint of tradition in the building structure.
We didn't do any research - just enjoyed this celebration of education.
After that we went to Aldi Market to shop for groceries. The prices were very good and it was only a three block walk to the apartment. Lulu brought a cloth shopping bag to carry the stuff home. One of my favorites was Flam. It can be quite expensive in restaurants. It is a pudding similar to yellow egg custard. They put a little Carmel on it for an icing. They had little plastic containers of it - 8 dishes to a packet for 1.6 euros - about 20 cents each! I could not believe it. I stocked up on them. They also had chocolate pudding there for a similar price. The French do not mess around with desserts. It is excellent.
We played with the kids after school. We stayed up until 10 pm - hoping to get a regular night's sleeps. I am now typing this before bed. Lulu is already sacked out.
Over the weekend we are all taking a little side trip to Chantilly. It is a world famous little town with a chateau about 30 miles north of Paris. There are things there for the kids to do. But we have things to do Thursday and Friday first.
Weather is good for Paris which is 48 degrees north - a full 9 degrees farther north than Tamaqua Pa. Today reached 60.
We are having lots of fun - adjusting well to the time zone. It is so good seeing the kids - and see them thrive.
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| I like these student seats in the national library. |
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| The new modern library |
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| This escalator was closed. |
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| I always love big globes - a 20 footer here |
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| Very nice urinals. |
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Lulu always gets a picture in front of libraries,
Note her library purse. |
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| Putin spent $140 million of his own money to renovate this Russian Orthodox Church. Wanna bet it is a spy chamber - and those domes are full of antennas? |
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| Eiffel Tower Theater by our apartment |
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| another theater nearby |
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| That is an iron lattice work. |
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| Just around the corner from us. |
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