Cold, Wet, Windy... What? This isn't the Camino?

On the road to the beautiful Mont Sainte Michel on the coast. Cold, wet, miserable  weather... We hope tomorrow is better for our DDay beaches tour up north. Tonight we were able to return to the abbey atop MtSteMichel to join the monks and sisters of the monastic community there for their evening prayer of Vespers... Quite a privilege and with our French we were even able to join in some of the prayer.  On to Utah Beach tomorrow early. 

Cemetery Week

Well, this was cemetery week, beginning with our visit to the US war cemetery in Suresnes, continuing with our tour of the St Denis Basilica which has the resting places of the French kings, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (first pix) and ending today with the Cemetere Monparnasse.  For you movie and military history buffs, Major Alfred Dreyfus of "I Accuse!" Fame (the wonderful Mel Ferrer movie about the Dreyfus Affair in which the heroic Jewish Major Dreyfus suffered on Devil's Island after conviction of espionage on faked evidence in anti-Semitic turn of the century France) is buried there in a very simple family grave along with the actress Jean Seberg.  But the best monument is the famous tomb of the Charles Pigeon family - see pix below.

Speak their names and remember... Edit From Nov 2013

Yesterday on Veterans Day we went to the American WW I military cemetery at Suresnes, just west of Paris.  As you see from the pic, you can see the Eiffel Tower from there.  A lovely, peaceful place as are all of the military cemeteries in Europe.  Many of the Soldiers there died at the American Hospital in Paris, and in the influenza epidemic of 1918-19.  Also many civilians' graves are there who supported the force, including Red Cross nurses, ambulance drivers and YMCA staff.  35 years to the day since John's first visit to Paris in 1978.  Many French visitors as well as 11 November is holiday here too.

The view from the hill

Went to the bell tower of Sacre Coeur with friends and climbed the 300 steps. Quite a view...

More Funny ads

HiWe keep seeing funny signs.  Here are two more - the one for jobs from London, the store name from Paris.   

So when do you advertise a "bad job for bad people?"