Wednesday 2 weeks gone

After a slow start I walked over the Seine to the famous Shakespeare and Co bookshop and cafe. I have 2 lists of places to get good coffee and both included this cafe. I was not going to go on principal. All the signs are in English and I was further put off when I was greeted with 'Hi, what can I get you?' However the coffee was good.  I had stuck my head in the bookshop last Sunday and it was crowded so today  I gave it a miss and found, a few streets away, another bookshop. I walked out with 4 books, all by French authors, 3 in English and one,  Candide by Voltaire, in English on one side and French on the other. 

After my previous post, a friend suggested I look at the work of a particular French designer who uses lots of colours in her scarfs.  About 20min walk away was a shop that had some of her work,  It was a small shop, fairly typical, with beatiful thngs - scarfs, bags, jewelry, gloves, hats, nicknacks. I enjoyed looking.

I walked to the edge of the Luxembourg Gardens. They looked interesting, but it was time for lunch. Another traditional bistro. The waiters were polite, very hard working, it was packed, food was delicious.  I ambled off, saw a sign to a church , Eglise Saint Etienne du Mont, that I had read about so went up the hill, not so good on a full stomach. It  had an amazing rood screen - the divison between the nave , where the congregation sits and the sanctuary where the people officiating at the service traditionally sit.

It is a bit hard to see the detail in the photo, but it is supposedly the most elaborate in Paris.

I wondered back down the hill and came back via a statue of St Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris on one of the bridges.

Again, probably hard to see the detail.

Sorry about the formatting. I will fix it later ( or not)