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Hi MelissaH, love your photos and the one of the GTG at the Haynes dinner is precious!!! Thanks for sharing them with us.
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Melissa: Love your real time TRs, tre cool! Soo enjoyed the pix too!
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Thanks all, and here is an article that came into my mail box this morning. I sure wish it had been published before we left home! Then my TCFH would not think that I was crazy for making these suggestions...
http://tinyurl.com/y6z27u |
Great article Melissa!
Monica ((F)) |
Thanks Monica!
Oh, BTW, I was so busy that I didn't get to go <b>jogging</b> while in Paris, but at least I got a few <b>runs</b> in while in Chicago. ;) |
Melissa, this is such a fun and entertaining trip report! Love your photos, too.
Wow, how amazing is it to meet Christian Constant? That must've been so cool and exciting for you!! :D Country line dancing in Paris? Who'da thunk it. That must've been awesome and hilarious. Love this interior photo of the d'Orsay: http://www.worldisround.com/articles...4/photo10.html C'est tres belle! The side view of the Opera house is one perspective of it I've never seen - cleverly done. Isn't Jim Haynes so nice? And he has the most amazing memory, too. He remembered my friend, Sandye, from her previous visit to his home and EVEN REMEMBERED WHICH BOOK SHE'D PURCHASED. I'd almost kill for a memory like that. Tours is a stunning cathedral. And such beautiful architecture throughout the town. Love those fleurs! Enjoyed reading about your Jeanne d'Arc jaunt. I'm fascinated by her. Am rereading a tale about her right now called <u>The Serpent Amongst the Lilies</u> by P. C. Doherty. http://www.worldisround.com/articles...4/photo36.html This is a stunning photo of the river snaking through the town with all of its medieval (at least they look so to me) buildings peeking out. The Lost Hatch looks really cool. Did you go all the way down? I love your close-up view of the I Love You Wall. :) Oh, and your rue St-Vincent photo, too! You were able to go to the Vendange festival? I'm so jealous! Did you bring any wine back? Those raspberries are gorgeous, too. LOVE the ones in Paris - I recall they were every bit as big as my thumb. TCFH = Travel Companion From He** HILARIOUS! Oooh, I want to hear about the ghost stories between you and Nancy. |
Thanks Beatchick!!
I am always thrilled to meet the owners or chefs of every restaurant. The thrill has not grown old, amazingly! He'd been joking around with me (although I could not understand him) all night, so I am surprised his photo makes him look so surly. The "Lost" Hatch was a little scary, since I tend to be a ghost magnet and the king ended up keeping his prisoners there! That was not its original intent, so the rooms actually look quite nice. They're built into the side of the hill so there really is light in there. But it was creepy! I think we went down two stories, but not three. My companions are not the type to do much more walking; this was our fourth day in France and they were getting wiped out. |
I think perhaps Monsieur Constant doesn't like to have his photo taken, that's all - his wife, however, seems to love it!
You'll have to e-mail me privately about you being a ghost magnet. Just the sort of thing I want to hear about as we get closer to Halloween. "The Lost Hatch" is something I'd want to explore all the way down. |
LOL, Melissa, great report!
We met Christian Constant at Le Violin also, isn't he just SO charming?! We were with friends who grew up in Paris so there was much jabbering back and forth that night.. And "<i>He was so good looking, though, I didn't know whether to jump his bones or slap his face. </i> Haha! Don't you just hate when that happens? lol |
We too met Christian Constant. (no picture. Maybe nine or ten years ago, just a few months after he opened C'Amelot, we were staying about 10 minutes away on rue des Tournelles. We were there for a month, so that kinda became our neighborhood restaurant and we ate there five or six times.
One evening we were still there at closing time and he came in, apparently to check the nights receipts and have a a few glasses of wine. The manager kindly introduced us to him and we exchanged a few words, and he offered us a glass of the wine he was drinking. He was very nice, but appeared to be very tired after a hard evenings work at one of his other restaurants. He didn't cook, at least not to our knowledge at C'Amelot, only owned it. He has since sold it and it has been enlarged with a rear seating area also. We had read a review when the restaurant first opened which said that it was one of Gerard Depardeau's (sp) favorite small restaurants. We kept wondering about that, as the original restaurant was what is the front part now, maybe 10 small tables, and Gerard appears to so big, that we wondered how he could possibly fit in :-)) Nina |
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