Tis' the season! We started October with a catacomb tour...The location was used as an underground limestone quarry to build Notre Dame. The tunnels are vast and later in time Paris needed more space to bury the dead and reduce disease.
So onward ho, we came upon the skulls and bones of six million people neatly and decoratively stacked. The Pirates of the Caribbean could not hold a candle to the sullen mood in the dark tunnels. At one point my client and I were utterly alone. I had the sensation to run and not look back, but I didn't have the heart to leave her in the desolate ossuary.
Breathlessly, climbing an endless amount of stairs, we finally met the air and the light and decided to meander through Luxembourg Gardens for a livelier side of life!
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| Doing What the French do... |
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| I want their gardener! |
On our bucket list was to try a real french Cassoulet. The caveat; it had to be the best Cassoulet in all of Paris. So we stayed up till two in the morning the previous night reading every possible restaurant review for Cassoulet from the last three years.
Au Pere Louis at 38 rue Monsier le Prince did not disappoint. The cassoulet was a religious experience. We lingered like the French and experienced a meal of a lifetime! Only if I can reinvent it at home!
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| Beautiful and creative lighting fixture. All hung in cluster. |
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| Cassoulet you will be missed! |
We topped the evening off with a 4 hour bike ride tour/cruise down the Seine. I felt like a 10 year old with a brand new Schwinn bike whizzing through the Louvre. It was so beautiful to see the sights by day and have the ability to view them with the city lights by night. Bonne Nuit.
