Today was simply beautiful. I had the afternoon free and the sun was finally beginning to introduce itself to Paris after they'd been separated for so long. Naturally, I took my reading homework and struck out for the Eiffel Tower. I wasn't the only one who noticed the sunshine - the tourists were in full bloom, snapping photos and turning maps upside down like there was no tomorrow.
Fortunately, there are several garden-type places both around the tower and just across the Seine, so I crossed the bridge and found a nice empty park bench. Not that it stayed empty, being one of the few benches in the sun and with it still chilly in the shade. But the real miracle of headphones is not being able to take your music with you, it's being able to pretend you don't here the lame pick-up lines the guy next to you is saying, and you can continue to happily read your Paris: Biography of a City.
Soon the wafting aroma of crêpes tempted me - as it so often does - and I tried a new flavour: crème de marron et chantilly (chestnut cream and whipped cream). I took no issue with the whipped cream, for which they gave me a spoon, but the chestnut cream and I did not agree. And that was the end of my afternoon reading along the Seine by the Eiffel Tower.
Tomorrow, I shall be journeying to the city where Heath Ledger performed in his first jousting tournament in A Knight's Tale - Rouen.
I guess "city where Joan of Arc was burned for heresy" would have been a better clue.
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