Wow - can you say overwhelming????? We travelled to the north of Paris to Clingancourt - to the Paris Markets today - Saturday - Markets for everything - shoes, purses, clothing, cloth, and enjoyed the most the antiques and jewelry markets - followed closely by the furniture markets - but man it is crazy - when you get of the metro you are transformed in this insane situation of people all sorts of voices and colors and wow -it was interesting - we did lots of window shopping - unfortunately I lost my reading glasses upon exiting the metro so I had for some reason put my magnifying glass in my backpack -otherwise I was sunk looking at the small stuff - lunch there then we were ready to get back to our neighborhood!
We somehow got off at Chatelet the wrong direction which is a bit unusual for us and it then took us quite a while to re-situate ourselves and find our way home - I did however get a new pair of reading glasses in the NikeTown equivalent of new snazy eyewear - what a scene - with a personal assistant I toured the glasses selections and was surprised I did not have to spend much to get the most beautiful new french chic reading glasses - really I have never felt so good about spending 20euros - across the street was the Gap - this was as Martha would say - a good thing - it is just getting tricky to try to figure out washing and drying our stuff here - with a couple of days to go - we heard the angels singing when we saw The Gap- we both bought two new t-shirts - 10 euros each and we don't have to figure out washing some shirts - and they were on sale...that took care of the problem!
Everyone is out on a Saturday - visiting, doing errands - little kids walking with their parents- lots of baby strollers - so fun to people watch.
We headed to our favorite restaurant for an early dinner and met a lovely gal Carrie from Georgia University of Design - she is a senior doing an 8 week stint here - actually in Provence but they have a week in Paris where they are required to visit a number of museums - sounds pretty great to me! It was fun to hear her stories.
This picture is from the area around Centre Georges Pompidou - people are walking - having coffee - talking - artists - cycling -dancing - miming - it is all going on!
4 comments:
Hi gals!
Wow! Ya'll have been busy and out and about. The weather here has been crazy as ever! Windy and cold,cold! Will write soon library closing.
Love,
Dinah
Hello my lovely ladies. I have been prone beneath my bed covers laden with viral germs , unable to raise my head from the pillow yet alone read your blog. But now Sat. PM .... I am feeling much better(came down with this on Weds. ugh!) I do love all of your adventures. Karen you look oh so Parisian in front of the Eiffel tower and Dixie you look exactly I did when in Boston, coat over my arm and sown to my shirt sleeves while all around me were wrapped in fur. I am green not to have experienced the market. Next time for sure I shall go there. LOve Alice
Hi gals!
You ladies are busy again today. We have not received a blog message since yesterday. Maybe ya'll took the train to London, England. We will be looking forward to your next blog message with pictures. I am still your most loyal fan, plus I am having a blast on your French trip from my computer in Carrollton, Texas! Ha!
Love,
Dinah
Of course I thought of the hotel room in Goa with all of our wet laundry hanging around the bathroom and not being able to find tshirts large enough for our american bodies...
Glad you are having so much fun!
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