Day 2 We start our visit

It is amazing how much time we can take just piddling around. Marie was cleaning (one of the problems of going to someplace that is yours) and I loaded software. I make computer house calls to exotic places.

Jeanette is and elderly friend of Marie’s. She was widowed in August and obviously is very lonely. We had been in the apartment about 5 minutes when she called to invite us for lunch. We met her at a Chinese restaurant that is very close to her place because it is hard for her to go very far.

We all had asparagus and crab soup. Marie and I shared a Thai beef salad and the wide rice noodles with shrimp. Jeanette had fish that had been battered and fried. We shared a bottle of wine. After lunch we went back to her apartment. She shared the sympathy cards that she had received. These she keeps next to her chair. Her husband’s chair sits empty at her side. They had been married 58 years. They both were living in Egypt and met at his sister’s wedding.

The universal card reader has disappeared from the apartment. We searched everywhere, so after lunch we went to Mike and Stewart’s apartment to see if we could find one there. M&S are computer guys so the chances might be good. They are in the states right now, but we had to stop by anyway to make sure that everything was OK. The apartment was originally decorated by a wannabe Louis XIV.

The bulletin board and hanger things are trompe l’oeil.

M&S on the other hand prefer electronics and use the boxes they came in for tables.
Still couldn’t find a card reader so we went off to the electronics district. Mike had directed us to two stores that had them for a good price. It is always fun to go to new areas and this was very busy on a Saturday. (For those who are familiar with Paris it is east of the Bastille.

We walked home by way of the apartment that my nephew Matt and I stayed in last summer. We also stopped at the bakery there for the pain au chocolate with framboise. We were still feeling good so we walked across the river and caught a more direct metro home.

Marie’s neighbor across the landing came for champagne and a little visit. She was leaving the next day, so it was good to see her.

We walked to Le Petel for dinner. We each had the 26.50 E menu. One had the entrée & plat, the other the plat & dessert. That way we could share the entrees and the desserts.

We started with a warm mushroom terrine. The little dots are a mustard sauce.


I had the lamb chops with a potato cake, beans and endive.

Marie had magret de canard with figs, potato pancakes, endive, flageolet beans, and celery root.

For dessert we had the dessert du jour that was highly recommended by the couple at the next table.
We had very cute waiters. We are 2 “ladies of a certain age” traveling by ourselves, after all. We do look.
Trekked on home and went to bed.