Last night we went to dinner at a friends house that lives in the 20th arrondissment. We ate racklet and finished with chocolate mousse. It was an excellent meal but our host did not calculate that it would be 26° degree (celisius); unusually warm weather for mid april. Racklett is great when you are skiing or when it is January in Paris or even in the normal April weather. So today I am feeling under the weather because I ate too much of it and actually stayed in the flat in rue saint jacques for hours with the beautiful warm sunshine not even interested in the Tuscan like weather.
This morning before I stayed in the flat we rode our bikes more out of reflex, because we had planned to do it, down to the quai de seine because I needed some photos of the Pont Marie. The light was strange this morning it seemed like that typical august heat light sort of muggy looking but in reality was not hot. We stopped and had a coffee on a barge just accross from the notre Dame and watched the barge cruises filled with tourists pass making the barge we were on rock docily. One coffee wasn't enough to get us back on the move so we had two. Excess to sooth excess. It was the first time that I have ever been on the quai de Seine.
The notre Dame was absolutely beautiful in the balmy light with a pale blue sky and the cherry trees blooming. I guess they are cherry trees, they are pink. We were the only people on the barge having coffee which was surprisingly inexpensive. When we left I went to find the ladies room and walked in on a cute waiter that was changing into his work clothes. oops!
Then we rode down to the Pont Neuf and I saw the most amazing thing. A whole grilled chicken just sitting there on the quai. It was sort of burned on one side. In that point there wasn't much trash so it was pretty funny to see a grilled chicken on the quai all by itself.
