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Paris
Thursday 21 September 2006
Among my happiest memories of a visit to Paris with my wife and two sons on 16-18 September are: strolling alongside the canal St Martin in the sunshine; wandering around the Jardin du Luembourg, close to our hotel, and thinking how nice it would be to be a French senator (the old Luxembourg Palace, built for Marie de Medici is now the home of the Senate); visiting again the Rodin museum and especially the exhibits in the rose garden; sitting in the Trocadero gardens in the shadow of the Palais de Chaillot on a sunny Sunday afternoon watching French families enjoying themselves; an evening trip on the Seine in a "Bateaux mouches" vessel; enjoying a croque-madame at the "Telex" bar just north of the Rodin museum; returning to the Chartier restaurant in the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre and discovering that the waiters still write your order on the table cloth; enjoying the peace of Notre Dame; seeing the late afternoon sun glancing across the Louvre and shining on the glass pyramid; listening to an impromptu duet and a colourful Trinidadian band; and seeing my two sons happily striding across the Louvre courtyard of which we have a charming photograph.
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