It is Easter Monday in Paris and many stores are closed so we got up late and went for a long walk in the afternoon across 5 districts. It was warm and sunny so it was nice out. We walked over to the left bank of the Seine and then followed it past all the secondhand book and poster stalls, past The Place De La Resistance (to the Nazis), past the Eiffel Tower, until we reached Pont Grenelle under which at the end of Allee des Cygnes is the other Statue Of Liberty. Actually there are 2 others in Paris - the actual model for the New York statue in Luxembourg Garden in the 6th, and the third in the Musee des Arts et Metiers in the 3rd district but the one we saw is the biggest and faces towards its counterpart in NYC. We had coffees and drinks along the way and ran into a Canadian, an Australian, and an Irish engineer but this isn't the beginning of a joke! And Dad bought an 18K gold ring for 6 Euros! It is real and it is a man's ring and I want it! We couldn't walk home after 5 hours of walking so we caught the Metro back to our nearest station, Arts et Metiers (the museum is opposite the station).
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