Meet Me in Paris

You know how it goes, trying to get together with friends at home: they're busy, then you're busy, then they're busy...and so on. The solution: meet up with the friends in Paris! That's what we did last Friday, with great results.

Pam and Lee are friends through the library - Laurie worked with Lee for quite a while and though Lee moved on to another position in the library system, they have stayed in touch. When we realized that we had one day that we'd all be in Paris, we planned a get together.

So last Friday Pam and Lee, and Lee's brother and his wife, Wendell and Pat, slogged up to our hotel (it had not been a nice day in Paris) and we all slogged further to Taverne Henri IV, one of our favorite places in Paris.

Four hours later we slogged out. Talk about a great time! We ate. We drank. We talked. We laughed. We had pictures taken of us sitting at a table used by Georges Simenon, the prolific author of the Chief Inspector Maigret detective novels, who was a habitué of Taverne Henri IV and did some of his writing there. Here's a picture of Laurie, Pam (front, right), Lee (front, left) and me. You may wonder about the books; they are, of course, Chief Inspector Maigret stories; our favorites: "Man on the Bench," and "The Headless Corpse."

Reading Maigret in Taverne Henri IV

We truly hope that we don't have to wait until our next trip to Paris to see Pam and Lee. But I'll tell you, this was one memorable visit; just a great evening with great friends.

Location:Rue Le Regrattier,Paris,France