rode the metro to the champs-elysees - tried sketching there, pretty hard, the thing is HUGE and the proportions just wouldn't be right on paper...sigh. by that point it was night and getting quite cold, went into some shops to warm up. wandered our way home - paris is fabulous for wandering, instead of a grid of streets to look down and never see anything, all the streets interconnect at wierd angles and are often designed to highlight an attraction - church, palace, department store hehe... so it's very possible to walk just a little bit and discover something else to wander towards - very much fun if you're not in a hurry to get somewhere. we did very much of that on the way, finding st. augustin church, the gare st.lazare, and eventually stopped at a little cafe for vin chaud (pronounced vahn show - the hot spiced wine that is now my favoritehot thing to drink, if you hadn't read that post yet) and to sketch the trinity church outside the windows. the sketch turned out pretty well(couldn't get the bottom, fences in the way). excellent way to end an excellent day.
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