Paris is BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!

We spotted this Alabama Jeep on the streets of Paris. It even had Heart of Dixie license plates in front. How cool is that ???

Arrived Paris yesterday after fascinating Chunnel train ride. WE WERE SERVED A DELUXE LUNCHEON W/: opps caps, ignore this keyboard is totally different from usa keyboard and is extremely difficult to use, so expect typos, no matter how slowly i peck and hunt. The dot key is even on the shift mode, how convenient is that !!!NOT

Anyway, lunch had various wines, fancy breads etc---and conversation w: a charming Indian fellow who was raised in the Congo--his parents own the Honda distributership--educated in England and NorthCarolina, lives in London; has Canadian pasport, his son lives in Paris and they are headed to Ibiza for holiday this week;

Sara LOVES Paris, it truely is fabulously beautiful from head to toe. Our hotel named, High Tech Something, and chosen for its advanced technical features plus location and price, has no internet access !!! We roamed the streets until midnight seeking internet last night, eacg shop was 'just closing but the shop down the street is open'.

Our hotel is one block from the Moulon Rouge. On the high hillside of Paris. It stays light until 10 pm so we were able to walk to the Cathedrial of the Sacrad Heart even tho our train did not get us here until late afternoon. The cathedrial has unbelievable mosaics, but they want no photos taken inside, people come to pray as well as gawk, but i managed some sans flash.

The air quality is sooooooooooooooooooo much better in Paris than London. Mostly the air has the fragrqnce of pastery, and goodness knows, these pastery shops on every block have some magnetic force for us. Sara and i are in food heaven...................................and everyone has been very polite and kind so far, starting w: our cab driver from the train station who was a sweetiepie.

I have heard scraps if info about a hurricane but not much interest here. The Europeans are very interested in Londons bombs of course, global warming--people keep asking us if we drive suv's and why everything has to be so big in the usa, and something about african debt, of which i have no clue.

We slept very late but plan to get into high gear and take the hop on hop off bus around town today, we have one more nighthere then till about suppertime the next day till we take the overnight train to Barcelona
Paris is warmer than London , thank goodness--and a London tv weatherman had the audacity to say something about the 'blazing sun continues' before we left...................