A Visit to the Passy Cemetery on a Scorcher in Paris
Bonjour,
Are we crazy or what? We picked the hottest day of the summer so far (95 F.) for an outside adventure. Wow, I felt like I was playing golf in the Alabama sun. We are pooped after walking about 3 miles in the hot sun. Despite the heat, it was our kind of Paris day, strolling around and finding new discoveries that we’ve never seen.
We left about 11 for a trek to an all pedestrian street, Rue Cler near the Eiffel Tower with the intention of eating at a famous brasserie on rue St. Dominique called La Fontaine de Mars where President Obama ate when he visited Paris.
After perusing the menu, we found it pretty expensive for our lunch budget and opted to go next door to a cute little place called Brasserie St. Dominique. As usual, the toilette was “en haut” or upstairs with this tiny little winding stairway.
The area has some lovely architecture and one of the prettiest patisseries we’ve found.
We walked all the way to Le Tracadero across from the Eiffel Tower because there’s not really a good Metro route between where we were and where we wanted to be. The Passy Cemetery is adjacent to the big traffic circle in front of Le Tracadero, but alas we couldn’t find the entrance. As fate would have it, we turned right instead of left and ended up walking the entire perimeter before we finally come to the entrance, only one way in and one way out. It sits up on a high hill, surrounded by a huge retaining wall upon which this bas relief is carved and dedicated to those who died in World War I.
I hope you enjoy this tour of the beautiful Passy Cemetery, smaller than others we’ve seen but dotted with fantastic statues and stained glass. We were disappointed not to find the graves for Claude Debussy and Eduord Manet. Maybe another cooler day.
The street sene of the day are these green toes!
We are not looking forward to our evening and trying to sleep in this sauna of an apartment!
À bientôt
L & B
July 25, 2018 @ 4:35 pm
Oh the miserable heat, but love the captivating cemetery shots. Heating up here again after a few pleasant days.
July 25, 2018 @ 5:27 pm
I’m worried about my little patio.
July 25, 2018 @ 5:33 pm
I leave tomorrow for the coast, but would be glad to check on your plants before heading out.
July 25, 2018 @ 5:35 pm
So sweet of you to offer, but not to worry. If they don’t make, they can be replaced! we have a sprinkler system but just 3 days per week.
July 25, 2018 @ 4:38 pm
Sixty bucks at a local inn for one night of air conditioning?
July 25, 2018 @ 5:27 pm
More like a $100-125 for one night even in a 2-star.
July 25, 2018 @ 4:47 pm
Linda & Bernie,
Wonderful cemetery and photos! I would love just a tour of Paris cemeteries in cooler weather some day.
BTW: I saw green toenails AND fingernails this week here in Huntsville. Does not look any better there in Paris to me! Bah! 😛
July 25, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
Green is not my thing, even seen green hair here!
July 25, 2018 @ 7:27 pm
The person with green fingernails here was handing me something at a meeting, and caught myself from say YUCK!
July 25, 2018 @ 5:04 pm
These are the most fabulous photos ever! I know that you are having your usual exquisite visit!
We will be here to greet you upon your return! Layne
July 25, 2018 @ 5:26 pm
Glad you like the photos.
July 25, 2018 @ 5:06 pm
Love the fern print on your dress. Fern seems to be big in Paris right now. We saw it on dresses, tops, skirts, rompers and pants!
Wow, we thought it was hot while we were there for two weeks at the beginning of July. Our apartment was a sauna too. They provided us with one fan, but it wasn’t enough, so off to Castorama for an additional one. I have noticed though that there is more air conditioning than there was the last time I was in Paris in July. I could actually feel the cool air in some of the department stores (prior if there was air, it was so minimal it was almost pointless), and I found more and more small shops and boutiques with the floor model a/c units with a white tube pointed out their door. Would have loved to have one of those in our little apartment!
July 25, 2018 @ 5:25 pm
I bought the fern-print dress when I thought my luggage was lost forever. Paid 23 euros for it! My kind of Paris shopping. Yes, our landlady promised that we would have air conditioning this year; instead we have two new fans. Hardly does the trick but you’re right about cooler atmospheres in places like Les Galeries Lafayette, etc.
July 25, 2018 @ 6:23 pm
Don’t think you’re crazy at all to go to a place with a fair bit of shade on such a day. Good on you and lovely photos of a lovely place. Of course I would be delighted to go with you sometime to a few of my favourites there 🙂
Seems long ago you were in chilly temps in Norway!
July 25, 2018 @ 6:32 pm
Blue nail polish is the color of choice in Minneapolis after the corals and reds!
Green much less popular! Ha ha
July 25, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
thanks very much Linda. I look forward to these every summer.
July 25, 2018 @ 7:35 pm
Glad you’re along!
July 25, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
We’d turn our air conditioning down another couple of degrees while we sleep tonight in your honor, but we don’t think that it would help you. :O)
July 26, 2018 @ 3:22 am
But the thought helps! Rain expected on Friday night. Pray!!!
July 25, 2018 @ 11:53 pm
All ur posts allow.me to travel vicariously through Paris but this cemetery is somewhere I’d never go! I’ve enjoyed it all — many thanks to you & Bernie! Can’t wait for Natalie’s arrival!!
July 26, 2018 @ 3:18 am
Neither can we!
July 26, 2018 @ 2:13 am
Your cemetery photos were very interesting and enjoyable as well. I’m most impressed with your cute shoes. I could no more walk all over Paris in anything that cute. It would be tennis shoes for me.
July 26, 2018 @ 3:19 am
My arthritic toes can’t take the heat of a closed toe shoe!
July 26, 2018 @ 2:29 am
Such enjoyable photos….Thanks for sharing.