Thursday, Oct 25

We finally got off to visit the Jewish quarter, something we have been trying to do for a week or so, but were always deterred by bad weather. We started out at the lovely place du Bourg-Tibourg at one of the several cafés on the place and spent an hour watching the world go by and basking in the sun, which has been absent a lot lately.

We then walk up the street (below) 

and around the corner to visit with Marcel, an old friend who has an antiques shop on the rue des Guillemites. Unfortunately he was not there and the woman there told us she did not know when he would return. Being the owner of the shop, he can come and go as he pleases. We left our card with a brief message. We hope that we may be able to get back there before we leave next Tuesday.

We walked through the quarter, principally on the rue des Rosiers and some of the smaller side streets. We saw many interesting things there. For example:

We had an early dinner, by Parisian standards, at the l’As du Fallafel. We each had a pita bread stuffed with fallafel along with some French fries and some red wine.

We walked a bit more and then went back to the rue de Turenne and took the bus home. We were gone over four hours and had a good workout. Too bad we missed Marcel.