Uphill Both Ways: La Butte aux Cailles

This afternoon I walk from my apartment all the way to Place d'Italie and the neighborhood known as La Butte-aux-Cailles. I leave at about 1:00 p.m. and return about 5:30. it's a leisurely but nonetheless very long walk (pedometer 12,315). I'm wearing short-sleeved shirt all day, temperature in the mid-70s. Outline follows, will fill in details later.

r. de l'Hotel de Ville to Pont Marie

cross the bridge to Ile St Louis
-les bouquinistes
-Seven Ages of Paris

r. des Deux Ponts
-Tour d'Argent restaurant
-HSBC and ads at CDG and JFK

r. Cardinal Lemoine (long uphill)
-Ecole des Enfants au Spectacle
-fabulous flower shop at intersection with r. Monge (Clos de Lias?)
-took photo of doorway leading to enclosed residential area
-Les 5 Saveurs d'Anada (organic and vegetarian restaurant)

r. Mouffetard (downhill)
-flip-flops for 19, 22 and 25 Euros
-another Diwali
-quincaillerie ("hardware" store)
-garbage truck and its "satellite"

avenue des Gobelins (uphill to Place d'Italie)
-a McDo's in a most beautiful setting/building
-Papeterie Plein Ciel

Place d'Italie
- amazing view of Pantheon from center of circle
-Mairie du XIIIeme (wedding/civil ceremony)

r. Bobillot
-restaurant Chez Natalie
-square Henri Rousselle
-place Paul Verlaine

r. de la Butte aux Cailles
-Les Abeilles, tiny honey shop
-Le Temps des Cerises
-Hotel St Charles
-up and down the hill
-hot air balloon story

r. Daviel
-La Petite Alsace
-villa Daviel (photos)

Passage Barrault
-house with tiny patch of lawn
-Merci de ne pas uriner ici

bd. Auguste Blanqui (uphill again)
-gazebo, men playing boules

Metro from Place d'Italie to Pont Marie and walk back to apartment
-little newspaper at entrance to metro: "Journees Europeennes du Patrimoine" with all events listed for Paris and out-lying towns. it's this weekend, september 16 & 17.