Cafe Louise for Lunch

Our last meal out in Paris was during the final meanderings from the Eiffel Tower area and Rue Cler to St. Germain shops to St. Michel.  We found little Cafe Louise along Blvd. St. Germain.  Later, we discovered Trip Advisor raters had given it four of five stars.  Good find!  

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This is where we sat, up by the shelves in the background.

   

In Ireland, I found myself ordering Chicken Supreme a lot, as I knew I could count on a chicken breast with mashed potatoes on top and some sprinklings of vegetables.  And Chari and I cooked in our Galway house.  Didn't care for a lot of the other Irish food.

In Paris, I'm finding I order the chicken club sandwich often, as well as French onion soup and sometimes Croque Monsieur, the traditional ham-and-melted-cheese sandwich here.  Paris does a lot of ham, not so much chicken.  Not a fan of ham, I search out the chicken wherever I can.  Didn't try any red meat here and we didn't eat "fancy."  And we made omelets with veggies, quiche with roasted veggies and oatmeal with fruit in the apartment most every day.

But we did try cheeses and chocolates!

Our Last Meanderings

Today we pack for Strasbourg.  We may step out later for some hot chocolate Linda discovered down the block and some final cafe-sitting, people-watching, Paris-relishing.  Yesterday we just meandered.  

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While consulting our bus schedule on the street here, we met a charming French woman who came up to ask us if we needed help.  Turns out she lives in Vermont!  She'd married an American at age 20, left Paris to make a home with him in the States, had three children, but divorced at age 50.  We talked with her quite a while.  Wish I'd gotten her Vermont information, as it would have been wonderful to look her up on a fall foliage trip.

Waiting for a bus at another stop, I looked up and found these two little birdhouses.

Book stalls along the Seine.

  

Les Deux Magots from across the street.

Just a sweet hotel in the St. Germain area.

More fashion windows.

St. Michel

(Love the pots!)

Art students practicing perspective drawings.  See them all down the street.

Odds & Ends

A small collection of miscellaneous Paris.

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At a bus stop across from Musee l'Orangerie.

  

Walkers, roller-bladers, and cyclists along the sidewalk.

And a scooter.

Along the way to St. Chapelle and the Conciergerie.

Some fun shops by name and by sculpture.

And always and everywhere, the cafes.  I think this is what I will miss most.

Last, a film crew shooting a movie.