Shopping

This page is a work in progress as I get the time (and the pictures) to tell the story.

Started out this morning to see what had happened last night at La Place de la Sorbonne, the site of protests against the new legislation to make it easier for employers to lay-off young workers, the theory being that the easy out-clause will encourage employers to take on more young people thereby reducing France's very high unemployment.

As you can see by the pictures, the students are not happy about it, and as a result of the recent protests, the government and the vice-chancellors are to sit down and work out a better solution. Mostly the evidence of what had happened the night before had been cleaned up, though the cracked windows and grafitti said it all.

Visited St Eustace near Forum Les Halles - nice to see it being so beautifully restored and I was interested in the Baroque organ.







Enjoyed having a coffee at Café Victor Hugo in Place des Vosges.









Otherwise it has been a quiet day shopping mostly. Nice to sit in a café by the Seine just near Notre-Dame and write a few postcards.



Enjoyed wandering around les Halles, St. Eustace which - like Notre Dame - is getting a lovely makeover, the Pompidou Centre and City Hall.

Tasted some fabulous tea - seems such a nice touch to visit a tea shop on be offered tea while you shop.


Back on L'Île Saint Louis in the afternoon we visited some more favourite haunts inluding L'Occitane - the leg balm is heaven for aching feet!