Started today by meeting up with some other Earful Tower podcast listeners at the base of the Coulee Verte. We had Oliver himself come and give a tour for 7 of us. Good fun, a walk along the Coulee for awhile, then off to the Marche d’Aligre, one of my favorite markets in Paris. We tasted a few cheeses, some wine etc. and then headed to Baron Rouge for some oysters. After that walked over to the Bastille Sunday market, but unfortunately my usual crepe place had way too many people in line to be worth the wait. After a few spring rolls at a local Traiteur, back to the apartment for awhile, then off to Deux Magots for tea. Headed over to Pl. Collette by the Louvre for some tango, but the surface was pretty rough and it really didn’t come together. Temperatures are dropping fast with lows anticipated at close to 40 degrees tonight, what a change from a few days ago. The whole city is nuts on Rugby World Cup and various metro stops related to this are closed. Every bar and restaurant has TVs set up with noisy people cheering. Ended up having a burger at Le Compas before heading back to the apt for an early night. Struggling to turn on the heat in the apartment, always a challenge as the 3 radiant heaters all have various cryptic symbols and no one has figured out how to really program them. If you are extremely lucky, you can get it to some kind of manual mode, but even finding that is not easy. Owners manual is useless and maintenance guy I had come over last trip was hopeless. Not sure why European appliances love non sensical symbols and making thing complicated. I just want to set a temperature and have it stay there, does that seem like an unreasonable ask?