A Sunday treat was the purchase of no1 (grade) oysters from a stall in Rue de Bretagne outside the local supermarket. Some people were scoffing them at stall, but we took ours home for dinner. There is no dignified way to pour an oyster into your mouth in the street.
Our Sunday excursion was to walk along La Promenade Plantée for some distance. This walk extends from Bastille to Bois de Vincennes. We have been to the Bois on previous trip and it seemed a long way on the Metro and an appreciable walk after that. We were surprised that this walk was said to be less than 5 km.
The walk is the track of a former elevated railway line and for all the way we followed it was a considerable height above street level. The path is concreted, and on this Sunday was crowded with joggers -surely not the best surface for pounding feet. In autumn, with flowering mostly finished, it may not be the best time to appreciate it. We terminated our walk after about 2 km, as we had already walked from our apartment to its start (a little over 4 km) and while pretty there was some sameness about the aspect.
Afterwards we took the Metro from Gare de Lyon (an intimidating station even on Sunday) to Republique, with the aim of walking to Le Jardin de l'Hopital Saint Louis, but we found this somewhat further north west than anticipated and when near the hospital boundary wall we turned for the walk home without savouring whatever delights may lie within. Our return walk took us down the Quai de Valmy on Canal saint Martin, which on the map seems to join the Seine in the north near Saint Denis.
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