Well I suppose the title of this entry says it all. It's supposed to be in the lows 20s today (low 70s) and will drop, the Internet tells me, to the mid teens (mid 60s) later in the week.Susie left for Pascal's a couple of hours ago and I'm getting ready to go out to Montmartre and Passy cemeteries, to finish up some, well, unfinished business. Actually I won't be going anywhere outside if the sun doesn't come out. It's really rather pointless to take photographs in this half-darkness. I'll hide out in the Musee Carnavalet or the Musee d'Orsay (even better). The next half hour will decide all!
Either way I've got a carte l'orange to burn up!
Just as a quick side note about local food: the best bread so far is at our favorite patisserie at Place Leon Blum, although the St. Georges boulangerie just a block and ahalf down Parmentier from rue General Renault has very good tradition baguette. The other boulangerie (bakeries) and patisserie in our neighborhood so far leave quite a bit to be desired: St. Georges oddly enough flips their eclairs upside down and pipes the chocolate fondant on the flat (bottom) side. Another patisserie down Parmentier heading towards Place Leon Blum has poorly made sweets: sloppy religeuse that look they are ready to fall over with their creme collars all askew, looking rather like something I might have done. In general, the choux dough around here (the 11th arr.), of the eclairs in particular, seem thick to me and the filling not so, well, full.
Ciao for now,
Steve
(photo above: What, you've never seen a foot-sniffing lion before? This statue sits on the right side, just inside the rue Saint Hilaire entrance to the Jardin des Plantes. Whose foot that is or was is anyone's guess.)
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