I missed the 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. BUT, I got to celebrate twice for France's Bastille Day. Started out meeting up with a couple American friends at an English pub for some Fish 'n Chips. Quite French, right? We ended with 5 Americans, me included, a French woman, a Mexican and an Aussie. Vive la France indeed!
It was so very tasty, though, there was A LOT of food!
Brandon and Tom (from Detroit) in the background.
Brandon and um, Adam. He's always pulling faces!
This is Ned (from San Francisco), Tom (from Detroit) and Brandon with our table piled with huge plates and condiments.
We moved from the English pub to visit an Italian friend of Tom's who works at some hotel around the corner. We got star treatment. Penthouse balcony turned bar/restaurant. It was so beautiful up there! THE best macaroons I have EVER had...
Adam and Fiona (a lovely Parisian), who finally showed up!
Adam loves to antagonize Fiona. She fights back. Hehe.
Check out THIS view!!! WOW! So stunning!
Here's the center of the block where this hotel, and others, are from the view of the penthouse balcony! Just think, when you get apartment buildings, THIS is what it also looks like and there are people LIVING there...these are everywhere! Every block is like this!!! Granted, they are HUGE blocks (probably the size of 2 normal American city blocks) and they're not on grid form.
This sky look is so common in Paris...then it will change to sunny in an instant!
Chatting away about nothing in particular!
Liz the Mexican and Emma the Aussie joined our celebrations for a quick "Yay France!"
Apparently, sunglasses at night are a necessary Paris fashion statement.
Time to go...
Busy Champs-Elysee at midnight! The crowds were unbelievable and shops still open!
Aah, Arch. I love you.
Here are photos of the lovely underground Metro. A lot of times, the platform isn't just down the stairs once you get through the ticket gate. Here are some photos of the long journey (took us about 10 minutes) to get to the platform, then wait (about 3 minutes) and then the journey two stops (if there aren't any delays, 8-10 minutes) then the relatively long walk from the last Metro stop down about 5 Paris blocks home (about 10 min). Or we could have just walked 20-30 minutes from the Arch de Triumph. But it was late at night and we were tired!
We had already gone down two sets of stairs by now...and we're about to go up some more stairs.
This man saw me taking photos and stopped to pose...he then hugged me. He was very smelly.
Fiona got a hug AND a head-pat!
Down a hallway on the way to more stairs.
Down yet more stairs....
...and more stairs.
We're so happy to be at our stop Adam does a dance!
Here's the corner where we start our walk home...
There are loads of bikes here...
I found this apartment building very interesting so late at night. It had a very quiet feel about it. It's not where our apartment is though. We still walk about 3 more blocks.
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