PARIS you're a babe

Bonjour!

After 4 days of hot hot heat and humidity the sky broke over Paris early this morning.
Thunder
Lightening
Rain. Lots of rain. Real rain, heavy rain!
Thankfully it's now cooler and the rain has moved on east. Ascent of the Eiffel Tower is locked in for today!

On arrival in Paris Jess and I hit the supermarce for essentials- pain, fromage, vin (and a bottle opener. No screw tops here, thank you.) and met up with some Real Parisians in a park in the middle of Paris that looked like it was in the middle of the 'bush'. Magnific! The sun set as we sat on the hill side and swapped cheeses for homemade mushroom pastries and rushed to finish our (surprisingly great tasting for only 3 euros) Bordeaux red before the park gates shut at 10pm.
Our connection to the locals is Romain.
A legend among men.
We met in the hot and absurd East of Turkey about a year ago.
After the piquenique we headed back to his cosy apartment for more wine, French philosophy mags, 80s French dance tunes and dancing with keyboards and retro irons & telephones.

Jess and I have done a lot in 4 days. Would love to stay longer in Paris, do more sitting and watching, but with so much to do in such a short period of time we've done well. Gold stars all round.

Romain met us on Saturday morning and guided us through Indian and Asian areas to a market under the train line where I bought cheries. Then up to Montmatre to the Sacre Coer on the hill with beautiful Paris views. Coffee, Moulin Rouge, some grave hopping (J Morrison, O Wilde), delicious lunch. An excellent morning. Thank you Romain for a really enjoyable amble through Paris.

Modern installations at Tokyo Palace, impressionists at Musee d'Orsay, flying buttresses at Notre Dame, chandelliers and silk and plastic and wood and polyester and weaves and china and puppies at a flea market...
More wine and cheese and Hotel de Ville and Pompidou and Jardin du Luxombourg and some Eiffel action and I'm done.

Sad to say bye byes to Jessica Rose tomorrow.
Soon to see the Bosdog and the reunion of Action and Adventure...