Saint Paul Saint Louis church - Frenchless in France

Mix

Another mix of photos from Dallas and Europe.

Another great display in Central Market with watermelons this time.

I had some fish at this place, Fish City Grill.

This was in a bar in Venice. I think they make coffee in the copper thing.

The beautiful interior of Saint Paul Saint Louis Church in Paris.

Here and There

More photos from around one of my favorite Paris neighborhoods, the Marais.

I love the shop called Israel full of containers of nuts and dried fruit.

The Mariages des Freres tea shop is celebrating the Year of the Ox.

Delicious looking bread in the Jewish quarter.

The symbol for the City of Paris newly painted for the soon to reopen Carnavalet Museum, that is if any thing opens.

These are not desserts but cheeses topped with nuts or fruit. I sort of wished I had bought one but it would be gone very quickly if I did.

The beautiful entrance of the Saint Paul Saint Louis Church.

My friend asked me to give her a tour of the Marais like I used to do when I was doing tours. It was fun to wander through the neighborhood and I was even able to show or tell her (she’s French and has lived in Paris for years) a few things she didn’t know.

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As I came out of the metro I was greeted with blue skies and lovely light on the buildings there. I like the architecture.

Another glowing building, the Forney Library.

A view inside the courtyard there.

Corner view looking like the chateau it once was.

Inside the very elegant Saint Paul Saint Louis Church.

Like many people, I have the “quarantine fifteen” and I am trying to loose weight. I’ve done the Dr. Dukan diet and it does work but it requires a lot of cooking and that sort of defeats me before I begin so I decided to try partial fasting which is 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours where you can eat. Some people are able to do the fasting part during the day but I start it at 8 in the evening so I can sleep through a lot of it. So, I shouldn’t eat before noon but by 10 AM I am starving, looking at the clock wondering if I will ever be able to eat and, usually, I am so hungry that I eat at 11 so it’s the 15/9 fast which I guess is better than nothing. I don’t weigh myself so I don’t know if I’ve lost weight but I think there is less fat around my middle. I do find myself thinking about food all of the time, planning my lunch and then my smaller dinner with borderline obsession. With the confinement-6 PM to 6 AM- my biggest treat is making a trip to my Monoprix (local grocery store) and wandering around the aisles. I have learned not to go close to closing time as it is packed with people looking for the ingredients for their dinners. I do lots of salads not with lettuce but tabule (middle eastern bulger and parsley), lots of avocados, tomatoes and shrimp. Sometimes chicken breasts but they require cooking so not more than once a week. I’m eating apples and oranges for snacks and have learned not to bring home anything sweet or they call my name from the kitchen.