Today was the first day of truly nice weather since our arrival in Europe, so I felt compelled to take as many photos as possible. After a mercifully short wait in line, our main touristic activity was a visit to the cathedral of Notre Dame. The line to climb the towers was impossibly long, so we just visited the interior. I later learned that tower entry is free to EU residents 25 years of age and under, although I don't know if that contributed to the size of the queue. I always struggle to properly capture something of the scale of a place like this in a photograph. Here's the one that - to me - conveys it best.
This evening we ate at Bofinger (pronounced roughly as Bow-Fan-Jay), which is something of a Paris institution. According to the menu, Francois Mitterrand celebrated his first presidential victory here. In the background, at right, is another patron that I can only describe as looking like a French version of Senator Edward Kennedy in his latter days. You simply don't see things like that at McDonalds.
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