Ahhh.... Paris.

As I sit here at breakfast in Paris thinking about the Camino; I realize I am filled with a new sense of awareness of things around me. People, weather, sights and sounds. It's cold and rainy here. I'm glad not to be on the Camino with this weather and just get to whine a bit about it while still able to duck into a building at a moments notice. 

I went to the Louve yesterday and got overfilled with people and information , so I left mid way through, but not before seeing a certain woman smile ;-)

I'm planning on just wandering today maybe doing some photography if the moments right. Somehow Paris doesn't seem as much Paris as I remember from 20 years ago. The Metro is updated with new cars and protection gates getting on/off. NYC subway almost has more personality than here. I did see a woman who was playing a bass and it's like really? You drug a bass down to the Metro? Respect! 

I went out to dinner last night at Le Relais du Venise; a place that got great reviews on Yelp. There was a line 50 people long waiting to get in. I must have some English in me. I saw a que and just blindly joined the line. It was good and very French experience even though it was steak and pommes frites (fries). Tonight Willi's bar that a former Parisian told me is great ;-)

Dave