Tuesday, Oct 30

Well, we were originally scheduled to leave today so instead we went for a walk starting at the place de la Concorde and then down the rue de Rivoli along the covered walkway and all the shops. We stopped at W. H. Smith, the English bookstore where we picked up a book since all of those we had downloaded onto the Nook reader have been read. This is a very interesting store with almost all of its stock being in English. It is very popular with quite a few people browsing and buying. Prices are rather high, some of the paperbacks of the top ten list selling for over thirty dollars.

We continued on down the rue de Rivoli and then up past the very modern place du Marché St. Honoré, a three or four story office building with a passageway running through center, with several large furniture stores. We got our bus at the Opéra back to our neighborhood.

We had some refreshment at the Café Charlot and noticed across the street a shop called Hier, Aujourd’hui, Demain (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow). It's an antique shop. They had on display about a dozen or so model cars some being capable of holding a small child. From what I could see, they seemed to be authentic reproductions of old cars and trucks, including a red fire engine. Some said 1939. See photos.

 Later we had dinner at the local café le Sancerre on the corner. It was a good meal, considering that eating at a café can be problamatical.

More to come tomorrow.