Start walk to Jardin des plantes but get as far as Judy ( gf cafe, part of a chain, always busy)
flat white and carrot cake good. Discovered they and other cafes in october pick a product and give a euro to Octobre Rose ( pink october) to raise funds for breast cancer . Discovered my phone missing so return to apartment. Walk to a building that was part of the last remaining horse trading place in Paris, still with writing on the wall. Walk to gate of jardine Des Plantes. Look for statue of a lion eating a man's foot, but not found, maybe wrong gate.
Wander around. Find the merry-go-round of endangered animals. Take lots of photos. Set up in 1992 in the style of the 1930's specifically for the location ( lots of natural history type museums around) of animals extinct or about to be. According to a sign on the wall there is one or more of : dodo from mauritius, sivatherium ( an elk like precursor of a giraffe) , triceratops, aepyornis from madagascar ( a huge emu like bird) , thylacine from tasmania in Australia, glyptodon from South America ( like a giant tortoise) , a horned tortoise, a panda,, a lion of Atlas ( also called a barbary lion,) an African elephant and a mountain gorilla. See photos later. Maybe.
I didnot pay to go into the live animal zoo, but still saw 1 of the 2 red pandas . I discovered my phone was down to 10% No more photos. The night before I had charged my backup battery, but forgotten to return it to my bag!
Tired. Do nothing much tomorrow.
Thursday
Walked to a street noted for its street food, atmosphere , small shops.etc the other side of the Montparnasse cemetery from me. Discovered that most of the shops donot open till later than 9.30 (its obvious if i had thought) Bought a thing called a merveilleux , a mound of the inside of a fluffy meringue . This one was pink for pink october.
Came back to apartment. Raining so stayed in. I was going to anyway. I am tired.
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