Apéro sur le balcon...

...followed by dinner, dessert and digestif, all on the balcony. This is where I still was (with bags not yet packed) approximately 6 hours before the taxi picked me up to go to the airport to come home to Massachusetts.

Paris Jazz Festival

Breakfast

Café latte, orange juice, fruit and an escargot aux pistaches.

Bastille Day

If you're ever in Paris on Bastille day, try to get yourself invited to a party at a flat with a balcony with a view like this:That way you will have a front row seat for the fireworks without having to brave the mobs on the Champs de Mars.



This is the lovely hostess, Maureen, watching the fireworks with Franck and Thibault.

Paris by night

This is what I do these days....

...eat and drink. Large quantities, and usually out of doors.