7/14/19 Senlis France Bastille Day

After a slightly longer than planned drive from Vougécourt because of road closures, we arrived in Senlis. We are on the northeastern side of Paris. As we were driving in we both said, my gosh it’s lovely here.

A walled city established by the Romans, Senlis became the home of French royalty in the 900s. It’s risen and fallen many, many times over the last 1000 years or so, and is currently an upper income city which commutes to Paris, with a small tourist destination.

We checked in to our Airbnb with a friend of the host (who had to leave town). She walked Cindy around the village as I unpacked, awesome.

This is one of the best Airbnb’s we’ve stayed in!

As I said, today is Bastille day, or French Independence Day. French pride is on display in most city’s, certainly in Senlis.

I’ve told you before, Cindy and I are very fortunate. We’ve spent over three months in France since we retired seven years ago. We enjoy rural France very much, the scenery, the language, the people and the food are wonderful.

However, Senlis might be our favorite city in France, wonderful.

What a lovely, lovely city! Could be our favorite city in Europe.

Historic walled city✔️

Historic city center ✔️

Easy walking city✔️

Great cafes and Brassieres ✔️

Great Boulanger/Patisserie 6 of them✔️

Gourmet Produce market ✔️

Unbelievable flower shops 8 ✔️

Gourmet meat shop✔️

Gourmet seafood shop✔️

Gourmet grocery shopping ✔️

Tomorrow gay Paris, with a 12 hour walking day. Then Versailles on Tuesday. The ferry crossing to England and London is next, stay turned 😎👍🍷

That means Black and Tans and fish and chips on the horizon 😜