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| Breakfast from Hure
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| We bought breakfast from Hure, one of our local bakeries. It was
finally open. (We eyed it soon after we arrived, but the past two days
we tried to go there--Sunday and Monday--it was closed.)
| A sampling of their desserts.
| Another perspective on their desserts.
I took this picture on May 21st.
| Breakfast pastries.
I used this shot for reference when
deciding on later days if I wanted to go there for breakfast and, if so,
what I would get.
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Peeking into the back room to see Hure's cooling racks.
I took this picture May 21st.
| My "croissant nature." I think this means without added butter.
Decent. It was layered and buttery but less flaky and made more from
risen dough (squishy) than I think it should be. Also, it had an
appealing touch of salt.
| Di Yin's palmier. It was huge--compare it to the side of the plate in
the bottom-right. It was decent/good, and crunchy due to solidified
sugar within. It's exactly what it should be. Di yin was very pleased.
(Palmiers are not usually my thing.)
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| South Le Marais
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The back of the Hotel de Ville. Note all the shredded newspaper. I
wonder what's going on.
I photographed its front the previous day:
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| A vertical panorama of Saint Gervais et Saint Protais church. Note all
three types of columns on its classic facade.
| It's gothic inside.
| The church's organ and the stained glass and carvings that surround it.
I created this image by combining two differently exposed shots of
the same sight.
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| Colorful stained glass within.
| Wow, what a detailed scene. Excellent for the quality of the
glass.
| Impressionist stained glass?
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Many people in the church have tripods and look professional. (Indeed,
half the people in the church are this type.) I think they're
organized.
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| In the Jewish holocaust memorial, a plaque explaining part of the
memorial.
| Too many names. :(
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Not far away is a French monument to all those deported in WWII.
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| Islands
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Paris's Pantheon as seen from afar. This is only the top two-thirds;
there's another whole level of columns beneath this one.
We'd make it to the Pantheon by the end of the day.
| We stuck our heads in an archeology museum on Ile de La Cite (near Notre
Dame) showing ruins from the first millennium (the first settlement in
Paris).
| Saint Louis en l'Ile church has a baroque interior, a nice change from
all the gothic we'd seen.
| A side view.
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| Along Quai d'Anjou, one of these houses is notable. As with other sites
on Ile Saint Louis, everything looks good and I can't tell one "notable"
site from the non-noted ones.
| Another sample shot of the walking paths along the Seine.
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Incidentally, near here we spotted people fishing in the Seine.
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| More South Le Marais
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| High school students play cards during their lunch break in this
geometric garden behind the Hotel de Sens. A panorama.
| The Hotel de Sens is a medieval building that has been kept up well.
| Another perspective. I like the guy biking by.
| Rue Saint Paul. This area calls itself a village. Judging by the feel
of the nearby mews and courtyards (and people eating lunch in them), it
might be appropriate.
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| Peering into a sample courtyard.
| Inside Pavillon de L'Arsenal, a 3-d model of the part of Paris around
Ile de La Cite, the historic heart. The level of detail reminded me of
the high-quality models I saw in Singapore's City Gallery. Notre Dame,
the Pompidou, and the Louvre are pretty obvious.
| A larger scale model. This one is perhaps twenty feet across. It
covers all of Paris; the previous model is the region in the
middle-center, perhaps 10% of this model. Thus, unlike the last model,
you can find the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in this one.
| The grassy Quai St-Bernard as seen from Pont de Sully bridge near Ile
Saint Louis (looking south-east). Supposedly this area has sculptures
scattered around. We planned to walk through it after lunch, but never
actually made it back there.
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| Another perspective on the same sight.
| Looking straight-east down the Seine from Pont de Sully bridge. Note the
many tourist boats.
| The northern side of the Seine near Pont de Sully bridge. In the
distance are buildings taller than most I've yet seen in Paris.
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