Yesterday, I climbed the famous steps up to the Sacre-Coeur of Montmartre, which is walking distance from the apartment where we're staying now. It's the highest point in Paris, and affords a fairly breathtaking panoramic of the city. Check it out:
See that blue-roofed building near the top-left of the frame? That's the Centre Pompidou, the modern art museum here (it was apparently designed to look like an inside-out factory... those trippy French artistes). Also, see that domed building near the top-right of the frame? That's some other important building. Probably a church or something.
Also, on the climb through the park, I heard a familiar sound and came across a group of (feral?) cats chasing each other around like little mountain lions. (Or chasing each other around like cougars chase tom cats?) (Or like ladies chase stray cats?)
Longtime followers of this blog might notice a strange correlation between this cat/mountain connection and an earlier incident in Korea. But the cat I caught on camera this time was far cuter. Just look at how he's stopping to smell the flowers.
Permit to end this tiny photographic tour of my life with a recapitulating word about the food here: it's awesome. Witness our dinner (smoked salmon and vin rouge out of the frame), accompanied by Sartre IN THE ORIGINAL FRENCH (yes I will be mentioning that in every blog post from now until forever).
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