Postmortem Paris

So picking up on the Paris story. J, C and I walked about 15 minutes to our VRBO. Hidden behind a tall wooden door we entered a straight walkway, lined with doors, shuttered windows, containers of small trees and flowers which branched right about 400 meters from the entry. This was the courtyard of our small wing (maybe 4 apartments?) and we were ground floor! Cleaning woman just leaving, she rode a scooter. One bedroom, great mattress, large closet, living room/second bedroom - decent pull out bed. Kitchen area and small toilet separate from the floor to ceiling tiled shower/sink room. We were just steps from the intersection of Les Gobelins/Rue Monge/Mouffetard. Verse Toujours was our am coffee stop; also had a salad there on Monday, sans Mick. We bought some body lotion and C started loving on the dogs. Which are much more reserved in Europe btw. Mouffetard was a bit quiet - many shops closed on Monday -but that actually made it better when we walked it again on Tuesday, with M now, and it seemed a different street! Lively with fresh seafood, cheeses, bakery, sandwiches and crepes and pita and...some jewelry etc.  At some point we got near St Germaine and I texted G, my niece, that we were headed to Cafe de Flore. She and her girlfriends had just  landed there! Great minds. We waited for C to use the Starbucks, single, restroom. I bought back up bandaids while waiting. After a quick stroll to the Flore we hung out on the street a minute talking to G, C and M - the table next to them was in the process of opening up!! Soon we had a drink and caught up with their adventures. They'd been out till 6 am, riding a scooter, meeting Italian men etc etc. Pretty cool to see your family member from Chicago for a drink in the sixth. We had to leave them to rendezvous with M at the Port Royale RER. Nice walk past Luxembourg Gardens. He strolled out the exit almost as soon as I had lit a cigarette (European behaviour only) - groovy timing. We took him to home for a shower and then went out for dinner.
xxoo
La