While the tourists went off to visit the Louvre, Earl and I went a few blocks away to the 4 Freres for Algerian food. The restaurant has been remodeled a bit but has the same generous servings of couscous and the same friendly staff.
I am not sure how I feel about these precious snap shots of me with my mouth full of food.
We had couscous with beef. There was far more food than the two of us could eat.
No idea what this strange object is. It was standing outside of the metro at Place des Fetes
When everyone had rested up for awhile, we took advantage of a lull in the rain and walked to the park at Butte Chaumont. It is charming. Spring seems to be more advanced in Paris then in London. More leaves and buds on trees. Behind Gemma is the cupola on the hill.
Walking past the hotel de ville
The suspension bridge definitely moves when you walk across it.
The bridge was built by Gustav Eiffel the builder of the Eiffel Tower.
Unfortunately the grotto is completely closed off. Two years a go, we could walk into the cavern. This is a tiny remnant of a water fall still existing above the grotto.
The lake and cupola in the background. No one volunteered to walk up the steep slope to get a closer look.
The park is more than usually man made. It began its life as a quarry and was developed into a park with a lake and a bridge and a man made grotto.
The grotto and waterfalls[edit]
The grotto is a vestige of the old gypsum and limestone quarry that occupied part of the site, now adjacent to rue Botzaris on the south side of the park. It is fourteen meters wide and twenty meters high, and has been sculpted and decorated with artificial stalactites as long as eight meters to make it resemble a natural grotto, in the style of the romantic English landscape garden of the 18th and 19th century. An artificial waterfall, fed by pumps, cascades from the top of the cave and down through the grotto to the lake.
The bridges[edit]
A 63-meter-long suspension bridge, eight meters above the lake, allows access to the belvedere. The bridge was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the Eiffel Tower.[6]
A twelve meter long masonry bridge, twenty-two meters above the lake, known as the "suicide bridge", allows access to the belvedere from the south side of the park. After a series of well-publicized suicides, the bridge is now fenced with wire mesh.
This is St Francis Assisi church on the way back to the apartment.
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