Tom's Pictures - Dec 13-18, part 1

Two pictures from the Champagne tasting. See, I did describe the room accurately...  Maxine is in the foreground in the second photo -- she'd made friends with the guy pouring for Roederer.  

I'd said the neighborhood by the champagne tasting seemed just a little dicey.  None the less, still a gorgeous city.  Next picture is just a restaurant we passed, 1/2 block down the street.  Picture after it is of the arc is at the end of the street.

Windmill in Montmartre.  The really hilly part of Paris.

The Lapin Agile, which we've never been to.  Although we did see the play years ago.  This too is in Montmartre.

Montmartre is "known" for artists.  Anyway, it's a hangout square where artists sell their works and draw people.  I took this picture because you can see how great a job the artist is doing capturing the guy in the chair!

Experimental new Paris.  This is a restaurant down the street...

...from here.  The best cocktail bar we've been to in Paris and as good as anywhere else (that sounds condescending, but it's really a comment on France being more of a wine country).  It's called "Sherry Butt" (look it up...)

If today you were going to "storm the Bastille", what you'd be doing is charging the glass building in the background.  On the site of the old prison they've build an opera house.