Monday, October 23, 2006

Slow Starting Sunday...or the last of cemeteries

Sunday was much of the same as Saturday, we just weren't hungover, only tired. We wanted to do things that were cheap, that was our goal of the day. Bought a crepe, 4.50euros, bought a map of Cimitiere Pere Lachaise, 2euros (all the other cemeteries the maps had been free!) and went forward in search of Bizet (Carmen musical), Balzac (writer), Modigliani (artist), Delacroix (artist), Wilde (writer), Moliere (French playwrite), Chopin (composer) Sarah Bernhardt (French actress), our girl EP (Edith Piaf) and Jim Morrison - he has is own security guard! Again like the past two cemeteries I've been to, the more elaborate ones are by the anonymous.

After the cemetery, we went in search of Victor Hugo's house. He wrote Les Miserables and Jessica was once in a production of Les Mis and loves it. So off to the Bastille/Marais area to find it. We got lost, and so close to it too!! As we're sitting down against a fence, I get a phone call, not entirely sure who it is, they ask me where I am, and I respond that I have no idea, we're a little lost. The voice on the other end says well aren't you sitting down against a fence across from a little cafe? This is exactly where I am!! It turns out to be a friend of Shefali's, named Guillaume with a friend that I met at a party a few weeks ago, Laurent. So we joined them for a cafe (or in our case a glass of Orange juice, no cokes) and chatted for a bit with them then continued on with our search of Hugo's House. I know where we went wrong and just needed to backtrack. I like serendipidious days like this.

Yay! We found it, and Yay! It's still open (30 mins to go) and the biggest YAY, it's free!

Saw some guy installing the last of his work in an enclosed garden and some street performers, it was a fun day.

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