paris plage

went out for an early morning run – smelled the baking bread at the next door bakery. ahh, the aroma of france.

we went up to the marais for dinner. the marais is a very old part of town and very hip and animated. we started with drinks at a wine bar that i read about. they serve dinner too, but we decided to explore a bit. it was getting into prime dinner time and it was summer, so there were a lot of tourists. finally we chose a restaurant which had a fire grill. their main focus was meat on the grill, but they also had things for p. the vegetarian to eat. it was ok, but not fab, so i won’t even mention its name here. it was a bit touristy. afterwards, we took bikes to go towards home. this was fun, riding in the empty streets of the marais and down to the seine where “paris plage” has been installed. this is a one month summer event in which the city of paris closes a section of the highway along the river and constructs a “beach” with sand, lawn chairs, games, mist spraying out and even a pool. there are concession stands with crepes, ice cream etc. during the weekend days it is packed, but tonight a drizzly evening, it was nicely empty. we rode the length of “paris plage” and all the way home.

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