It was cloudy and kind of rainy all of August, really. Today, however, was exceptional. Chris (in Paris) and his wife, Joelle, took me to a little chocolate bar/bike rental place in the 19th arrondissement, Velo et Chocolat, that has the best hot chocolate in town. To. Die. For. 3 euros, and you can not finish a large cup. On the way, we stopped and got some melons. Here's Chris.
Feel free to insert your own caption. Across the street was a horsemeat butcher. For real.
We came to this neighborhood to see the canals. Really quite lovely, and a neighborhood of Paris I'd never seen (the light was tremendous).
It's a rather mixed neighborhood - Arab, yuppie, Asian and Orthodox Jewish mixed together. We witnessed an interesting exchange of looks when two Orthodox Jewish guys with their kids walked through a group of Arab guys sitting in the park. Nothing happened, but the looks exchanged were priceless. There were also a group of Asian men playing some game (majong?) with ivory-colored blocks with symbols on them.
As I mentioned, we didn't hit the area until 6pm or so, so the evening sun was just gorgeous.
