May 5th and Miscellaneous

I know I'm way behind here, but we've been going constantly and coming home very tired and going quickly to bed.  Then we get up pretty leisurely and decide where we're going after checking the weather  as it's been quite a wild weather week.  Once we leave we've been staying out for 7 to 14 hours so there's been no extra time.  The weather has been chilly, rainy, windy, sunny and pretty warm all in a day and it's been that way until today (Sat).  On Monday, the 5th, we picked up Metro tickets at Bastille station which is 5 minutes from the apartment and then walked over to the Promenade Plantee, a viaduct that was once railroad tracks that are now a garden above the city that's about 5 miles long.  A great green space above the city with some nice views.  The spaces below are now shops and atiliers for artists.  We wandered a little and then went for another late lunch at Petit Bofinger which is almost right around the corner from us.  I had steak tartare and really perfect french fries, crispy on the outside and potatoey inside, and Leas had gazpacho with an adorable little grilled cheese sandwich floating in it and salmon with an eggplant and pepper side dish.   I had fruit (strawberry) soup for dessert.  The restaurant is beautiful, great service and very good food.  I highly recommend it. We went back to the apartment and put a load of laundry in as the machines both wash and dry and they take half a day; the shortest dry cycle is 2 hours and that doesn't even start to get things dry.  We walked over to Ste Chapelle for the Vivaldi Four Seasons concert.  Queued up to get in to have our bags checked, then queued up to get into Ste Chapelle, then queued up to get our tickets checked.   The chapel is so beautiful (haven't been in it since 1998) with the huge stained glass windows and small space that it's hard to believe you can go to a concert there.  The acoustics were fantastic - hard to believe 5 violins, 2 cellos, 2 bass and 1 harpsicord can sound like they did.  So glad we got to have the experience.  After the concert, which started at 8:30, we walked back to the apartment, stopping on the way for a crepe.  Great day.