MONTMARTRE
In April of last year Susie and I stayed for a month on the third floor of this building with the window in the upper left corner from which I would throw the key down to Susie to let her get in the front door of 15 Rue Yvonne Le Tac. Our favorite grocery store was a small store half a block away down the hill. And our favorite bakery, Pain Pain, was just around the corner.
Just up the street was HotelTim which my brother Richard stayed in long ago while researching a novel which he set in that area. Later, because he had stayed there, Kathe and I stayed there on our honeymoon in 2013, fifty years after we married. Susie and I had also stayed there a couple of times for a night on our way back from India. The rooms are tiny and in the summer very hot. There is nothing special about the hotel except for the sentimental memories. In front of the hotel there are a number of tables where people drink a glass of wine or hot chocolate. So Todd, Susie and I, all bundled up on a 40 degree afternoon sat there again and enjoyed the view across Paris.
There is a merry-go-round just down the street and on this cold weekend afternoon the streets were full. We were going to eat at Bouillon, an inexpensive restaurant with marvelous food just down the hill in Pigalle, but the line to get in stretched down the street and around the corner. So we headed back to our Airbnb and picked up some food on the way and ate it at our Airbnb.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 