The heat wave is here! The brief rain shower that we had yesterday night didn't help at all, Josh was totally unprepared and couldn't sleep until 1.30 a.m. Finally he drop dead on the sofa and I had some rest too. We are no longer used to this temperature, in L.A. the summer is warm but at least we have some wind. Here, despite the wide streets, the air doesn't move between the tall buildings and you can almost feel it, stuck and oppressive. We decided to go for a walk in the afternoon, hoping to get some relief, but unfortunately we picked the worst place in Paris: the Centre Pompidou, with its glass structure...it was like walking in a furnace! I had to refrain Josh from jumping in the Stravinsky Fountain!
I was surprised by the fact that there are no longer street artists here, apparently they have been banned by the municipality: we saw just a couple of musicians playing but as soon as they finished to perform their first piece, two "flics" arrived and had them leave! What a pity...They were actually good.
The only breeze we had in the day was at the Paris Plage: hundreds of locals and turists in bikini, naked kids, all lying on the sand, just as they were in Cote d'Azur! Very funny. I wonder why we don't have the same in Torino!
And here we are, exhausted, on our way back, in front of the Tour Saint Jacques. Am I the only one who, looking at it, thinks at Minas Tirith?
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