We got up and had our usual fabulous continental breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, we got on a train for a couple of hours to go to Strasbourg to see the town and visit Lori's friend from college, Jean-Yves Benichou, who plays bass in the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Strasbourg is a charming little city that has at various times been a part of Germany or France. It most recently changed countries after WWII. Jean-Yves gave us a great tour of the city and took us to Le Terrasse Restaurant on the top of the Printemps department store.
After lunch Lori, Bruce and Jean-Yves went off one way and The Great Magnetic Wife and I went another. Mostly we looked at the local Toy Stores. We had an espresso in a local cafe and spent some time in the cathedral. At one point we heard a great deal of commotion and looked across the canal to see the Young Commies having some kind of a march. Perhaps it was a pre-May Day march. Pretentious, welfare state students, who will one day become workers with a 35 hour work week, unite!
While the Great Magnetic Wife went to a big department store, I went to the local Virgin Megastore. They seemed to mostly feature artists I have heard of, certainly a lot of Madonna displays. There were really very few big displays of French artists.
We met back up with Lori, Bruce and Jean-Yves and made our way back to the train station. We had a beer and a sandwich and headed back to Paris. I guess our day of touring Strasbourg tuckered us out.
Back in Paris, we ate at the Cafe de L'est. Had some great French onion soup, which they call onion soup.
1 comment:
Nice blog! I had forgotten the names of all the eating establishments:) Lori
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