Tuesday, June 26 Invalides

WEAPONS, WEAPONS and MORE WEAPONS! What can I say. The Invalides is a museum of all of the ways that men have waged war against each other through the ages. They have expanded and improved the Napoleonic section. It now has really good explanations of stuff in English. The two World Wars have some good film, lots of pictures and propaganda posters.

We spent several hours there, stopping for lunch and then continuing. We finished with the always delightful very over the top Napoleon's tomb.



We came back for a rest and then took the metro to meet Mike and Stu at a Franco-algerian restaurant near Les Halles. (By the way, there is major reconstruction going on. The shopping area and the children's play area have been demolished.)

This ad in the metro is, believe it or not, for clothes for pregnant women.


At the restaurant we were served a little bowl of delicious stew with Algerian spices. It was so good, we ate it all up and asked for more. Ford had steak & frites, the rest of us shared lamb shoulder, couscous, salad & home fries.



Stopped for gelato and then walked part way home by way of the pedestrian bridge across the Seine. Last year there were some locks - this year they might overload the bridge.



Another bride. Everyone was really impressed with my camera's zoom capability. I took this from across four lanes of traffic and a good bit into the Louvre.



Ford cannot believe how much walking he is expected to do. But we were kind and took the metro the rest of the way.


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