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| Breakfast from Victor
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| For breakfast, I tried a new bakery: Victor.
| Every pastry shop has a slightly different selection of breakfast
pastries.
| My Viennoise pomme. Decent. Light dough with an apple filling. It
didn't fill my pastry craving.
| The apple filling.
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| Lunch at Breizh Cafe
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| We had lunch reservations at Breizh Cafe. It serves
Breton-style (buckwheat) crepes.
| The cafe isn't large. It's decorated with soft wood tones. We sat on
the stools at right (as you can see).
| The cooks worked behind the bar, below shelves filled with bottles of
Brittany cider. (It's known for its cider.)
| Le L'tit Fausset dry, Paul & Gilles Barbe, the small bowl of cider I
ordered. Yeasty, bubbly, and dry, it was refreshing. However, it
tasted bitter to me when drank with the crepes. Di Yin on the other
hand said they went well together. I appreciated that they chilled the
bowl.
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| Di Yin's artichoke complete crepe: sunny side up egg, ham, Gruyere, and
artichokes.
| K's onion complete.
| My mushroom complete included eggs, ham, Gruyere, and both button and
shiitake mushrooms. Unlike the other crepes, these eggs were not sunny
side up but nor were they scrambled. It's more like they were fried
sunny side up but with the yolk spread everywhere and cooked so that
everything was cooked through.
The egg, cheese, and ham went together great! The buckwheat crepe dough
tasted fried, perhaps a bit too much so. Also, I appreciated that the
plates were heated.
| Di Yin's dessert crepe of pear, almonds, and ice cream was fantastic.
The dessert crepes used regular crepe batter.
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| K really liked her crepe of strawberries and ice cream. It
looked great! This place really knows how to present things well.
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I apparently forgot to photograph my dessert crepe. It was supposed
to be banana and chocolate flambéed with rum, but it wasn't
flambéed and hence was too rummy. :( I didn't like it much. But the
crepe itself was tasty (when not soaked through) and remarkably thin.
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| Eiffel Tower and Vicinity
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| Our first view of the Eiffel Tower. This was a good direction to
approach it from.
| Looking past Trocadero Fountains (too bad they didn't have any water) to
the bottom of the Eiffel Tower.
| The Eiffel Tower's bottom platform with the green strip of Champ-de-Mars
beyond it. The building is the Ecole Militaire (Military Academy).
| The Eiffel Tower's middle platform. Wow it's crowded.
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Scientists names are arrayed on every side of the bottom platform. We
played the recognize-the-scientist-and-name-their-achievement game.
Between us, we got about half. K got the most.
If you
view the full-sized image, you can play the game too (at least with this
side of the tower).
| At first I thought these statues by the building above Trocadero
Fountains were human statues (i.e., people standing very still). (Many
human statues use gold-painted fabric.) These statues are not alive
however.
| From beneath the Eiffel Tower, the arches the girders make and the
patterns of metal above them remind me of the stone arches in cathedrals
and their accompanying adornments.
| Looking up at the tangled cross-hatching of metal.
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| Diagonal elevators that go up to the lowest level. I think more people
walk up the zig-zag steps however.
| A high-resolution picture of the Eiffel Tower as seen from where we sat
on a park bench in the gardens by Champ-de-Mars to relax a bit.
| Le Mur de la Paix (Wall of Peace), a monument at the south end of
Champ-de-Mars, has messages of peace written in many languages. The
picture looks north (obviously) to the Eiffel Tower.
| A high-resolution shot of the Eiffel Tower as framed by Le Mur de la
Paix, with people picnicking on Champ-de-Mars in the foreground.
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Columns near Le Mur de la Paix (Wall of Peace) have more writing
in various languages. This site could be used for a Game clue.
Ecole Militaire is in the background.
| A close-up of the Ecole Militaire's (Military Academy's) rectangular
dome, clock-tower, and reliefs. The building is in French Classical
style.
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| Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine
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| Later in the day we returned to the area near the Eiffel Tower to see
the architecture museum: Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine.
It's housed in this building.
| A panorama of one of the many rooms in the museum showing casts of the
facades of French churches.
| Another shot of one of the huge exhibition halls filled with casts.
| A movie of Di Yin playing with one of the great 3-d interactive
exhibits for exploring churches. Play it with sound to hear me
directing Di Yin. She was not too good with the controls, but I found
them easy to use.
I think the cathedral in this display is
Sainte Cecile in the town of Albi in the Tarn region of France.
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| A model of Cathedral Notre Dame in Laon.
| Tsk, tsk.
| The room of casts of churches in Flamboyant Gothic style.
| The Eiffel Tower as seen from the museum. The greenery in the
foreground is the Jardins du Trocadero.
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