Paris: Day 3...you can guess.

Friday morning we walked to Bob's favorite church; St Sulpice. It is famous for being very large, in fact the second largest church in Paris. It is hard to get a photo of the front it is so large.

The inside is impressive as well.

                                                                           There is a lovely chapel to St. Genevieve.

Bob loves it for its gnomon. You will need to click on the link to get the full story. I believe it was used in the Da Vinci Code.

After a leisurely stroll inside the church we enjoyed watching this fashion shoot in the square out front.

At this point, I opted to go back to the flat to rest and catch up on things.

Bob and Genna went for a very long walk which included the gardens outside of the Cluny Museum.

The church of St. Severin....

...which had great gargoyles.

Bob wanted to find La Rue Huchette, as he had fond memories of the place with the pig on a spit.








On their return through the Luxembourg Gardens, they discovered this sculpture.

It's called The Mouth of Truth, it was believed that if one told a lie with one's hand in the mouth of the sculpture, it would be bitten off.

Genna reading on our balcony.

Tea time pastries.

Once they returned and napped we headed out to dinner just a few blocks from our flat.
I had chosen a place called Le Relais de L'Entrecote. It is patterned after a restaurant we used to love when I lived here.

There is no menu, they serve entrecote steak, salad and pomme frites. They ask you how you want your steak and what kind of wine you would like. The salad always has walnuts and a French mustard dressing.

 The steak is a thin cut, with an amazing sauce. Half of your main course is served to you while the second half is kept warm !! The fries are to die for, so is the sauce on the steak.

Sticking with my own tradition, I had profiteroles, for dessert. Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph them before we all dug in.

I am not sure if this restaurant is actually related to the one we used to go to but I can say that the food is equally as good. The service while faster than most French restaurants was not hurried. It is a bigger place than our old haunt, so when we arrived at the very early hour of 7:15 PM we were seated very quickly as the place was almost empty. We used to have to wait in line at the old place even before they were open. The tables were very close together and the service very fast and brusque. For me this place was an improvement.

Happy Bob and Laurie !!