Sorry. I deleted this diary by mistake along with the five comments to it. That's the first time I've ever done that but it seems to me we need a "Are you sure you want to delete" question.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

I'm definitely in. Any of those times would work.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

I will not be able to participate in the visit, but I plan to join you for dinner.

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

I expect to be there for walk and dinner.

Sorry LEP, but tramping around a cemetery looking at the tombs of famous dead people is not my idea a fun way to spend now rare afternoons in Paris - but chacun a son ghoul :-)

I think I'll probably have a look at books by famous dead and living people in Shakespeare & co. and then, if the weather is OK (forecast is "sunny"), have a drink on the deck of one of the boat-bars parked nearby with a view of the back of Notre Dame.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

do we actually have a time and place for meeting yet ? I shall prbably be walking up from Les Halles where I'm planning to have lunch.

I can meet anytime, would prefer earlier rather than later but I understand that it may clash with people's arrival times.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Upgrade me from a "maybe" to a "will be there."

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

I think it's too late, but I'd like to advertise nevertheless:

On friday, a friend of mine is play acting "L'enseigneur" in le Trianon theatre in Paris (80 Boulevard Rochechouart 75018, Metro line 2) at 19h00, cost 18-25€.

It needs to be able to understand french, but it's not as difficult as classical plays. It's a belgian play about a french literature teacher who is sentenced by its judges to go around explaining her story.

Her story, as a teacher is obviously quite tragical, and describes the difficulties arising in teaching in contemporary belgium (and France): the job loss of glamour, the lack of interest for literature , the taste for quick easy money and the way students will avoid efforts...

So, if anyone would feel interested, I recommend it (I've already seen it twice, it was in Avignon theatre festival two years ago and is quite good).

Hi LEP, I did not think I would be able to make it tomorrow, but now it is looking possible.

If I let you know for sure by this (Thursday) evening (French time), might it still be possible to join you for dinner at New Nioulaville and (less likely) Père Lachaise?  If it's too late, no worries, I'll see you on Saturday!

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.

Goggle Maps (with StreetView): 32, rue de l'Orillon, Paris.

I can't be 100% sure because work might keep me busy late, though.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.

I'm definitely coming -but maybe late.
My boss has asked me to have my yearly review at 5pm. Knowing him, he'll be late. Then it will probably take longer than an hour (and I really can't rush that).

Yes, I had initially taken the day off. Bosses do that to you at times ;-)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

If 12 people want to take the inexpensive banquet for 27.75 euros a head, heres what you get:

1. quail sauteed decorated with filaments of jellyfish.

2. crab and asparagus soup.

3. shrimp and frogs legs sauteed in salt and pepper.

4. veal a l'imperial

5. celeri sauteed with cuttlefish.

6. carp marinated in a spicy sauce.

7. szechuan rice with scallops and shrimp.

8. choice of desserts.

comes with 2 bottles of red wine and 2 bottles of mineral water.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!