Friday, June 5, 2009

Walking tour update

This is mostly for the subset of us on the walking tour (Beau, Kathy, Steve, Mel, Teri and me). I'm copying the rest of you mostly to make you jealous.

I've heard from our volunteer guide. Her name is Armelle Mercier. Her e-mail to me was very charming and she offered to give us all kinds of advice. She claims to speak only broken English (and said she'd be bringing along her French/English dictionary), but I'm positive that her English is better than my French, and between the two of us there won't be any problems.

She will be taking us on a walking tour of Montparnasse, Odeon and perhaps St. Michel.

The time slot we have is 6-8 p.m. on Friday, which bumps us right up to our group dinner at Le Petit Zinc. Armelle is a volunteer and has a regular job so she's not available before 6. She offered to meet us at the hotel. I asked her if we could be sure to end the tour in time for us to make our dinner date and will let you know how that goes, but you may be going on your walking tour in your dinner clothes.

Also, I invited her to join us for dinner after the tour if she is available (my treat), so the rest of you may meet her as well. I'll let the Maitre D know if that's happening, but I'm sure it won't be a problem for the restaurant.

1 comment:

Kathy said...

Fine with me. All my shoes are comfortable. Got rubber soles cause of the boat.