Lepod's Blog

We very much enjoyed our time here, it’s a very liveable city as well as a stunningly beautiful one. We had a look inside Notre Dame, we read our books beside the Seine, we took a boat tour on the Seine, we followed the footsteps of Inspector Maigret from the Quai des Orfevres where his office was, to Rue Richard Lenoir where he supposedly lived, and finally to Montmartre where many of his cases originated. In Montmartre we discovered a tiny vineyard which produces around 850 bottles of wine annually, the money being donated to social causes. We saw the house belonging to Theo van Gogh where Vincent himself stayed from 1886 to 1888.  We saw the famous Moulin Rouge but no can-can girls as I would think they were probably still asleep at that time of day.

One of the best parts to my mind was, in our neighborhood, seeing how the locals socialise at their bistros in the evening and talk over a glass of wine or beer, and later over a leisurely meal, sitting out on the pavements watching the world go by. Even though we were only two blocks from a heavily touristed area, there was little sign of it here, apart from us of course!