Last Visits In Paris

To wrap-up our week-long visit to Paris, we took the short walk from the Pantheon to Luxembourg Garden, a beautiful sixty acre garden and then a very short visit to the Church of Saint-Sulpice.

The garden was packed on this sunny Monday (do Parisians actually work, or do they just hang out in gardens?). 

There are beautiful flower beds, a large pond for toy sailboats, comfortable green chairs to sit in and soak up the sun.  The Jardin du Luxembourg was a hangout for Hemingway, where, being poor, he would strangle pigeons for dinner.

The center piece of the garden is the pond, but the home of the French Senate, the Luxembourg Palace, dominates the landscape in a classical French building kind of way.  All in all it was fantastic, relaxing way to end our trip (well, actually, whilst walking the nearly mile back to the hotel we stopped for a sweet crepe.  I had the banana sweet crepe, and it was so worth it.

Not all modern art is terrible.

This is interesting, even if

I have no idea what it

represents.

Big heads.

Luxembourg Palace.  Parisians

sunning themselves.  A perfect

ending to a wonderful trip.

The pond.  My only regret is 

that I didn't rent a toy sailboat.

Lots of statuary.

Just your typical park with a palace.

Thinking about adding this clock and

statuary onto the house.  Front or back?

The original selfie.

The Church of St. Sulpice.

Oh, I suppose I could write about Air France cancelling our flight while we were just 90 minutes from boarding, so we spent an extra 24 hours in France.  But since Charles de Gaulle International Airport is a long way from Paris and we were tired, we checked into our free Courtyard by Marriott hotel by the airport, went for walks and watched Netflix.  An extra day in Paris sounds ideal, or sounds like too much time, work, and expense so we chilled.

Thanks readers -- see you on our next trip. . .coming soon!