Visiting Jim Morrison and Friends
August 2nd
Today we took our first bus ride out to Pere Lachaise Cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried along with many other famous people including Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Sarah Bernhardt, Balzac, Proust and many more. The cemetery is massive and we decided to do a VoiceMap tour of one section since it was a fairly warm day. It was fun following the directions of our guide in order to find the graves he described. Finding Jim Morrison took a bit of orienteering between headstones, down stairs and along cobbled paths but in the end we were successful! I would highly recommend doing a VoiceMap tour here and maybe even two or three if time allows and you're physically up to the ups and downs of this incredible place.
We stopped at our little boulangerie (Secco) at the end of our block to pick up a sandwich for a late lunch before heading out to O'Chateau Wine Bar for a tasting. I learned about this place from a book I read by Olivier Magny who started this wine bar/school in Paris. The book is titled WTF...What the French! In the book he shares his hilarious insights into the fervently held opinions of his fellow Parisians. The wine bar is a cute space at 68 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau near the Louvre. We had a lovely young sommelier introduce us to three white wines, two from the Loire and one from the Rhone region. All were very good but we preferred the Chenin Blanc from the Loire. After our tasting we ordered a tasty cheese board of 6 or 7 cheeses and a glass of Rose from Provence produced by a friend of our server. Once we finished we were off to the subway back to Rue de Varenne.
