Satuday Night in Paris

 Bill and I sat found a street side table at Au Petit Fer a Cheval (At the Little Horseshoe) yesterday evening. We'd noticed the tiny horseshoe-shaped bar and been attracted to the general ambiance of the place and it's denizens during previous wanders through the neighbourhood but it was always packed

It's across the street from a sister bar, La Belle Hortense. From where we sat we had a lovely view of Hortense and her goings on.

The lovely lady on the left is Hortense's bartender. We met her later in the evening. La Belle Hortense is a mixed bookstore, bar, gallery and music venue.

It's Saturday night in Paris where the people-watching is some of the best on Earth.

Especially here in the Marais at the corner of Rues Vieille du Temple and Croix de la Bretonnerie.

Many couples stopped to have one partner's picture taken in front of our bar. When we sat down, Bill and I didn't realize we were sitting somewhere famous. We just thought it looked very cool.

But judging from the faces of the people checking it out, everybody seemed to know about it but us.

We drank their reasonably-priced drinks and enjoyed the flow.

At one point our waiter straightened up some of the bicycles parked outside and then plopped himself down in one of the seats.

As the bills for each new drink piled up under the ashtray our waiter brought us a tasty snack of anchovies on paste. Lovely!

We fell in love with Paris all over again.