Hotel de Ville

Later in the afternoon, I ventured back out to the same area with Jeff and two of his judge friends - Barb from Canada and Gianluca from Italy - to dine at his favorite vegetarian restaurant. While there, we explored the Tour Saint Jacques, a tall bell tower.

We also explored the area for possible spots to watch the Opening Ceremony. Jeff had access to a ticket for the Opening Ceremony, but he declined it because the organizers would not add spouses to officials' tickets, and he wanted to watch the ceremony with me. Besides, before we departed for France, we read that the general public could watch the opening ceremony along the Seine. However, when we set foot on the actual site, we found that the area around the Seine was mostly blocked off for people with paid tickets. However, we were allowed to cross one of the bridges, and so we naively thought we could watch from one of the bridges. We decided to look at the various bridges tomorrow and find our vantage point.

I'll expand on this on a later entry.

While we were in the vicinity, we encountered one more Atlas Obscura site, the Fountain of Innocents. It is the site of an old cemetery, and it has a rather gruesome history, which you can read here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/25092Read more