Entre Les Murs

Out and About

It has been a quiet weekend, passed recovering from our recent travels, but we didn't spend all of it inside.  We've both climbed back on our work-out programs, Janet signing up at a gym and me heading into the Bois de Boulogne in my new running jacket.  Saturday evening we set off to explore the 7th arrondissement, an area we haven't really frequented much, even though it's the location of Les Invalides, Les Musées d'Orsay, Quai Branly, the Musée Rodin, and not to mention the Eiffel Tower.  We walked down rue Cler at dusk, a well-known pedestrian mall and market street.  There aren't many of these pedestrian-only streets in Paris.  You can see it would be a lovely neighbourhood to live in (but a glance at the prices in the window of a real estate agency dismissed any realistic thought of that).


We had a drink at a pub called La Source, which had a view of the Hôtel des Invalides, then aimed for a little Basque restaurant we'd read about.  There we learned a lesson about obtaining reservations in Paris, tourist season or not.  Since there aren't a huge number of destination restaurants in that neighbourhood we walked across the river and found a satisfactory Italian place instead.

posted 18.2.07