Another Day in the City

Lolly blew up her American sewing machine. She replaced it this week with a French sewing machine and so that kicked off The Search for Fabric. We begin in Les Halles where, I'm told, the fabric selection was uninspiring.















But St Eustache was cool looking ...















The Search continued to Montmartre where, upon surfacing from the Metro, we ran smack into an undocumented workers' strike by Les Travailleurs Sans Papiers (Workers Without Papers).































And then found the fabric district - the holy grail ...















And a shot of Sacre Coeur through an alley to boot. (Note the hundreds of tourists sitting up there on the steps. It's always like that).



















Took the Metro to our favorite veggie, wok sort of place in St Michel and walked home through Luxembourg Garden (after stopping at Starbucks near the Sorbonne, of course) ...