Archive for rue Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile
swimming the Seine (after the Aare, the Cher and the Willamette)
Posted in Running, Travel with tags Aare, Bern, Chenonceaux, Cher, Kumano Kodō, morning run, Notre-Dame-de-Paris, open water swimming, Oregon, outdoor swimming, Parc des Écrins, Paris, Paris 2024 Olympics, Paris 2024 Paralympics, pollution, Portland, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile, Seine, sewage, Ville de Paris, water pollution, Willamette, women's Olympic triathlon on July 29, 2025 by xi'an
Sens’o risotto
Posted in Kids, pictures, Wines with tags Chinese restaurant process, Italian wines, Notre-Dame, Paris, risotto, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile, scallops on February 6, 2016 by xi'an
A chance dinner last Sunday led us to dine in Sens’o, an empty Italian restaurant on one of the Paris islands with a superlative scallops risotto and a chance encounter resulted from talking from the idle waitress who happened to be a free-lance journalist. We talked for quite a while on her previous trips to Haïti, Egypt, and field hospitals at the Syrian border in Turkey. (The restaurant was empty for a combination of reasons, from the drop in tourists after the November 13 killings to January being a low tide month, to a blistery Sunday night being unattractive for revellers. Not because of bad reviews…)
