26th December!

(Christina)

We met Lisa at around 10:30 today an went straight to some markets in the south of Paris.  They were fun markets - lots of stalls and interesting stuff, mostly antiques.  I bought a hair thing and Lisa got a little set of kitchen scales.  It was obscenely cold and both of my feet went numb.  We stopped to have brunch at a bakery.

Then we took the metro to the left bank - or the south bank - to see a cool museum that Charles found, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.   It turned out that the exhibition was about a particular French comic book artist called Jean Giraud  or Gir or Moebius.  It was super interesting and awesome.  I wish I could read French!!

Then we walked around the cool streets on the left bank, over the river from Notre Dame.  We went to Shakespeare and Co bookshop (a famous English-language bookshop, mostly run by poets and authors and beatniks), and had lunch at another bakery.  It was all very pretty, but not many shops were open because everything shuts on Sundays.

Home now yay!  Another dinner of home made sandwiches!

PS. In Paris we mostly eat sandwiches. The bread is soooooo nice.