10 13 Sunday

This morning after my usual coffee and croissant I went for a walk to a park, a long thin extension of the Luxembourg gardens where one of my books said there some interesting things . There is a big statue at the beginning of the park, furthest away from the luxembutg gardens which has some horses around the bottom of the statue and then above the horses 4 figures, which look to me very like females, holding up the  world. Odd. I forgot about the things I was on the lookout for because there was a series of statues. In the next one there was a male and a woman, the woman definitely dominant, the next he was  being a bit pushy but she was resisting, then in the next 2 statues the 2 people were about equal.

That filled in the morning . I had arranged to go to a near restaurant  for lunch on the recommendation of the owners of this apartment. The waiter was great, always talked to me slowly in French, sometimes explaining , but always in french. He usually understood my responses and remembered. Towards the end of the main course I asked if t was polite or rude to use the remaining bit of bread to mop my plate with. Polite he said, maybe not if you are dining with the president. Later when he cleared my plate ( and he was very busy) said' the chef will be very pleased .

Later in the afternoon I went to an organ recital in the big church, Saint Sulpice , I have been to before. I spent quite a while looking on line for a programme, with no luck. Pity, I would have liked to know what I was listening to, I know very little about organ music. There were none available at the church.