{"id":653,"date":"2023-05-07T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2023-05-07T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:54:53","slug":"paris-aug-9-2019-our-last-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Paris (Aug 9 2019) Our Last Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That night, we returned for the third and last time to <a href=\"https:\/\/cafedalayrac.fr\/en\">Caf\u00e9 Dalayrac<\/a>, the caf\u00e9 down the street from our hotel, where by this time they knew us on sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s dad?\u201d the waiter asked us, after we were seated at a table. \u201cO\u00f9 est le papa?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe left today. We\u2019re leaving tomorrow,\u201d Betsy explained in French. \u201cI wanted to thank you for your hospitality on our visit,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cC\u2019est normal!\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meal was relaxed and pleasant, a leisurely conversation between mother and daughter on a warm night in a Parisian caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We agreed the Versailles visit was a total disaster. I found myself saying, \u201cWell, I guess I\u2019ll have to come back some day to get that visit done.\u201d And I noted that although we visited the Louvre, and we did as much as we could in a few hours, we certainly didn\u2019t visit much of it, and then found myself thinking I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing more of what the Louvre has to offer. Along those lines, I started thinking about some of the things that had dropped off my itinerary during planning. I would have liked to see Montemarte. Had it not been for my blasted feet I would have gone there with Betsy earlier in the day. I never got to see the inside of Saint-\u00c9tienne-du-Mont. And of course, Notre Dame was still under construction to repair damage from the bad fire in April 2019. I would definitely have to see that when it was all fixed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s it,\u201d I said. \u201cThat\u2019s five things I specifically missed seeing. That deserves another trip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we continued the conversation, my mind was working in the background about how to replenish my frequent flyer miles in preparation for a second Paris jaunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That night, we returned for the third and last time to Caf\u00e9 Dalayrac, the caf\u00e9 down the street from our hotel, where by this time &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-france","has-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldladytraveler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}