Along the River Seine, a view from the Musee d'Orsay. Our apartment is just a few steps from the Museum.
We rested after our 9 hour flight from Champaign through Chicago, which was delayed two hours in Chicago because they could not thaw the water pipe from the gate to the airplane to deliver water for the toilets, we decide to take an evening walk along the Seine River.
The River Seine is very much a working river as the barges indicate.
Here you can see the car lights along the river drive and the lights from the Grande Palais in the distance on the left and the Ferris Wheel on the right in the distance.
Above the buildings in the center is the top if the Eifel Tower which is lit with sparking lights for Christmas.
Looking toward Nortre Dame Cathedral in the center, the Louvre is on the left and Musee d'Orsay on the right.
A closer view of Notre Dame Cathedral.
A closer view of the Ferris Wheel.
The wheel seems to become larger and brighter as the evening goes on.
Terry outside the restaurant Le Telegraphe
The next day we go to a restaurant called “Le Telegraphe.” It was build as an Art Nouveau dining hall of the Maison des Dames des Postes, Telegraphe et Telephones, which was a dormitory for the girls who served as telephone operators.
Note the beautiful Art Nouveau glass and illuminated pillars.
Terry enjoys a glass of red wine.
Eunice has fish and Terry has lamb.
Today it is a shop and the Hotel Lille.
For dessert, Eunice chooses “All chocolate, Nothing but chocolate”
Which pleases Eunice very much.
Terry has a flaming Creme Brulee.
Which also pleases Terry
Eunice waits until Terry's Creme Brulee is finished flaming.
Well, she tried to wait, but the chocolate was too tempting.
Some of the Art Nouveau fixtures in the Le Telegraphe.
Terry at Le Telegraphe
The entrance to Le Telegraphe.
Around the corner Eunice sees a cafe that promotes Beer and French Food! What a surprise in Paris.
Terry at 9 Rue de Beaune, where the Hotel Elysee was located in 1920 when Ezra pound convinced James Joyce to move from Trieste to Paris.
Terry wanted this photo since in Trieste he took photos of the many places James Joyce lived prior to coming to Paris.
Next door at 7 Rue de Beaune is the building where the American Author Henry James visited James Russell Lowell in 1872 and found Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter in the sitting room and wrote home about “a little Cambridge on the Seine.”
The Hotel Lenox where James Joyce and his family moved in 1920.
Terry in front the the Hotel Lenox
Eunice enjoys reviewing all the variety of food at a neighborhood deli.
