Stalking Hemingway
Posting this entry while sitting near the window view of mountains, meadows, and silence is making it nearly impossible for me to relive the energy that kept me moving through miles of Paris city streets. I couldn’t get enough of the vibrancy- had to keep looking around the next corner. I’m grateful for the two days. We’ll return!
- Another late start but still got in over eight hours of sightseeing and nine miles of walking.
- With only two days in Paris I decided to forego museums. Next trip! Instead, I wanted to walk the streets and alleys, take my breaks in the bistros frequented by Hemingway and friends, and catch whatever standard tourist spots in my path.
La Palette
- Lunch: tuna and toast. Red wine.
- La Palette began as a gathering place for fine arts students and was frequented by Cezanne, Picasso and that crowd.
Les Deux Magots
- Break: a glass of red wine
- Founded in 1812, is “A café synonymous, with literary and artistic life, (Wiki) and was frequented by the likes of Elsa Triolet, Louis Aragon, André Gide, Jean Giraudoux, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Prévert, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Hemingway.
Brassiere Lipp
- Fancy dinner of pot roast and a glass of wine
- Across the street from Les Deux Magots on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement.
- Walked around for about an hour after my break before dinner.
- Another hang-out for the artist crowd.
- Next to Louis Vuitton where people were lined out the door to spend thousands for their handbags.
Notre Dame
- Cordoned off by police trucks and construction barriers.
- Small groups of military men with assault rifles walking through the tourist melee.
- Scaffolding up the cathedral walls.
- Can’t get close to the place since the fire.
