cool old stuff and wine

we are in paris. it's lovely, actually. weather is cooler and very nice, and we went on an interesting walking tour today. and my ankle is better so we can do that kind of thing. the walking tour was really cool and we learned a lot about henry the second and louis the 14th and learned a lot. also we did something really cool that i liked a lot. we went to a flea market kind of thing with antique lots-of-things and it was all these little alleyways with old everythings. tables, aposltered chairs, buttons, keys, an old globe that called alaska part of russia... a lot of cool old stuff. we'll be here a few more days and tomorrow we'll go to the louvre. also we've been metro-ing everywhere and we are getting it more than we got the barcelona system.

so in paris they say "voila" all the time. and they don't dress as stylie and fashionably like they did in barcelona - in barcelona everyone was super skinny and dressed skimpily. also everyone was so hip and had tatoos... i even saw a grandmother type with a tatoo on her neck. the tatoo was a flower. here it's more normal. they have a cool rent-a-bike system here and they did in barcelona, too. we'd try it here but my ankle isn't good enough yet. when we were in the south of france we went to two concerts of classical music in old churches. one church was 1000 years old. the other was younger. we saw a saxophonist playing classical music; this was something i'd never heard before. and some opera-type singers. they were young, like 20-somethings, but if you couldn't see them you would think they were older and overweight and with puffy wigs and many scarves and jewelery. but they were young and skinny and hip-looking. so that was interesting. there were grapes growing everywhere around where we were. fields and fields of grapes. it's wine-ville.

yona