All of the pics are from my iPhone. What an amazing device. These are some of the things I will miss when we leave on Saturday.
Our neighborhood in Montmartre 
Our apartment – “old Paris style” 
Bakeries like Du Pain et des Idees (Bread and Ideas) in the Canal St. Martin district 
Baguettes from our local boulangerie, Maison Laurent 
Our favorite restaurant: Au Virage Lepic on Rue Lepic 
Burrata: A soft Italian buffalo cheese from Italy at Oggi on Rue Lepic. It’s the best appetizer ever 
The Seine from Quai Voltaire 
Musee d’Orsay: Sacre Coeur through the Clock window 
View of Notre Dame from the Batobus 
Giverny: Lily ponds and Monet’s dining room 
Monet paintings 
The painting that gave Impressionism its name 
Chagall’s Palais Garnier Opera ceiling 
Break dancers on Rue Montorgueil 
Roland Garros: M watching the Djokovic match on the giant screen 
And the friends we saw and spent time with here – Johnny Price and Margherita, Jon and Leslie Maksik, Ruti and Gerard Mesnil, Steve and Karen Demorest, Susan Ireland – and all the Parisians who put up with my butchered French and still made us feel welcome.
We are drooling ove your pics while holed up in a flophouse in Long Beach, going to do some cycling on a path through the dunes tomorrow. The best reason to be here, newly discovered, is the Depot Restaurant. C’est formidable.
But back to Paris, you have whetted our apetites (and whistles) for a return to the mother country.
walt