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<\/p>\nThe day was sunny and bright, but a little cool about 50 degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 In the sun it was warm, but on the shady side of the street we were glad we had our sweaters.\u00c2\u00a0 We completed the walk from our book called Pigalle.\u00c2\u00a0 It started at Metro Bonne-Nouvelle, walked down Boulevard Poisonniere (the road on which all the fish was transported to Paris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 market), past notable theaters like the Rex and Max Linder Cinema, through a Jewish area filled with restaurants and delicatessens, a couple of Catholic churches (Notre Dame de Lorette had magnificent ceilings and wall painting decorations), a grocery store with its original 19th century d\u00c3\u00a9cor called The Housewife-founded in 1761, the French Masonic Great Lodge whose museum was under construction\/renovation and closed, an area called Nouvelle Athenes where semi-luxury private houses were built in the 1820\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.\u00c2\u00a0 We passed a guitar store called California Bass at the intersection of rue Pigalle and rue de la Rochefoucauld and wished Steve Nuckolls were here.\u00c2\u00a0 The walk predicted in one area we would find amusement stalls (shooting, fortune-telling, etc) but they have apparently been replaced by Starbucks, McDonalds, and Pizza Hut.<\/p>\n
We stopped for lunch at a bistro in Place Pigalle and then headed to a Metro\/RER station to try to buy our Navigo Decouverte card for next week.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the windows had long lines so we kept heading back to the apartment.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, we found a helpful attendant at Etoile who tried to understand my French and let us buy the carte, buy the weekly fare, and explained how to fill the card out and made sure we understood we could not use the card until Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 We went back to the apartment, pulled the laundry out of the washer and hung it up to dry.\u00c2\u00a0 Headed back out to find a sunny sidewalk bar to enjoy a glass of wine and pick up a baguette for dinner.<\/p>\n
Mike made French Onion soup for dinner\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
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