Last word on Paris……..

………. Paris has to be the most beautiful city we have visited to date. It has so many faces and each one of them has its own charm – even the homeless with their makeshift living arrangements do it with Parisian style – pets, wine in glasses and other little refinements. A makeshift hovel at the edge of the marina would have washing out each day to dry……. There weren’t huge amounts of graffiti, but even the graffiti expressed an urban ‘edginess’ that didn’t invoke the rage that so much graffiti does. There is a ‘joie de vie’ in Paris that seems to over ride the constant presence of armed gendarme, but I don’t think we’d ever get used to seeing ‘youth’ fully armed. Modern buildings snuggle amongst their gracious forebears…….I’ll admit that when on holiday one has rose tinted glasses…but Paris…..aaahhhhhh……….meanwhile life ‘as a servant’ continues…..more about that later………… …we’ve had lots of visitors which always brings us in touch with home and who we are…….lots of love xxxxxxx