Paris

View from around the corner of my Paris Residence.

I arrived in a sweltering Paris yesterday.  Parisians don't do heat well.   Luckily most Parisians have gone for holiday.  Nevertheless they have been replaced by loads and loads of tourists.  I don't really consider myself a tourist-strictly speaking- since I have been privileged to visit Paris at least ten times beginning when I was in high school.  I won't be standing on (m)any lines as I have done most of that before.  What I will be doing is walking.  Paris is a great, great if not the greatest walking city thanks to its 18th century layout.

The Assemblee Nationale Building, Paris.

While in Paris I will be staying with the Little Sisters of the Poor at their home near Les Invalides.  Originally, I was supposed to be closer to the Luxembourg Gardens but work is going on at there home there.

The Senate Building as seen from the Luxembourg Gardens.

While here I will see some friends, one a classmate, a priest from Scotland, who is arriving tomorrow.  He will be here for a very warm weekend.  I also hope to use Paris as a hub visiting some other places with my rail pass.  One of those highlights will be visiting a couple from Basel, Switzerland that I met on the Camino.  It will be great to see Selen and Simon in their "natural habitat."  Hopefully Switzerland will be cooler than Paris.

Musee d'Orsay a een from across the river.

For obvious reasons, the tragic rail accident near Santiago has greatly saddened me.   I know it cast a pall over the city and its celebrations for the feast of St. James.  Certainly it is a cause for prayer and remembrance.   I hope all the pilgrims I encountered returned home safely.

Sun sets on the Church of the Val du Grace, Paris. 

Posts will be a little more sparse now as I do not have wifi and the photos that everyone likes might be added when I get too a place (other than a coffee bar) that offers wifi.