Crazy freakin' hot day in Paris. We started the day at Pere Lachaise cemetery, wandering around and admiring famous graves. I have to admit, I'd hate to have been buried next to Jim Morrison! Nice to see Gertrude and Alice B. buried together... much nicer than seeing Heloise and that faithless Abelard. Still love Oscar Wilde's tomb, too... perhaps none the better for the purple lipstick kisses all over it.
At some point we also made our way into Notre Dame -- big, beautiful, cool Notre Dame. Sigh.
Perhaps now I should capture some thoughts about food.... we ate well, even if we mainly ate bread and cheese. Paris isn't exactly a vegetarian paradise. We should have had more Lebanese food, methinks, but were a little frightened off by the "ham in everything" mood of much of the food we saw. One complete highlight: Berthillon ice cream... amazing. Not sure why we didn't have it every single day... We also drank bottle after bottle of fizzy water... fantastic. And is there any shame in eating amazing bread and incredible cheese all the time?
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