Bill and Nancy Smith Family
Travels and Holidays

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Dining in Paris: On the Bateaux Mouches up and down the Seine; the Cafe Grandes Marches

Our Swedish hosts provided two fantastic Paris evening meals. The first was on boat on the River Seine, the Bateauz Mouches.

It lasted two or three hours, we went up the river, back down the river, then back to the dock. Along the way, as twilight fell, and the lights came on, we went past the Notre Dame Cathedral and many other sights along the river that we have heard about all our lives. All along the way, we were being "wined and dined" in the finest style. I didn't try the wine, of course, but, that is my personal problem!

At this table, from the left, are Ulf, our Swedish host, Aleta Roth (USA, University of North Carolina) and her husband, Dick Chase (USA, University of Southern California) and his wife, and, on the right, Dave Tansik (USA, University of Arizona).

And at my table:

Need to fill in names, Bill, sans glasses, on the right, in the foreground.

The other evening, we were taken by our big maroon bus to the Bastille district to the Les Grandes Marches, Place de la Bastille, for a true French restaurant meal in Paris.

It was so exclusive, for us, by our hosts, that we each received a personal, engraved menu, with the date (21 septembre 1998) and the menu on the right. I had our hosts autograph mine for me.

I really have no idea what we ate, but, it came in many waves, from really decked out servers, had duck in the middle and chocolate at the end, with lots of kinds, types, and shapes of wine, I'm told.

Page created 10 Jan 2000, last updated 19 May 2000.
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