Reporting live from a sleepy Sunday morning in Paris… where the clubs are still open and to most people walking the streets, it’s still Saturday night.

I’m happy to report that my head no longer hurts from Friday night – I needed to stay in my room last night and sleep to make sure.

I took a nice walk yesterday to the Latin Quarter in Paris, on Blvd de Saint-Michel. I saw the Panthéon, which is a building commemorating “great French people who we should remember”, and went down through the crypt. People like Victor Hugo, Voltaire, and lots of other, surely very important, French people that I don’t know are buried there.

There is a plaque inside the main hall dedicated to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and they sell the Little Prince in the gift shop.

I also took a stroll in the lovely Jardin du Luxembourg, which is really nice and is less touristy than the Tulip Garden outside the Louvre.

I finished the Last of the Donkey Pilgrims by Kevin O’Hara a few days ago, and it was a delightful story of an Irish guy living in America who returns to Ireland to discover Ireland for himself, and decides to walk the Ring of Ireland (read the perimeter of the whole country) with a donkey and cart. This takes place in the 1970’s, and you read about all of the different towns, sites, and people throughout the country.

I finished Dubliners yesterday, which is a collection of short stories about the lives of people living in Dublin in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s. A group of very dark stories that centers on the faults of people, and the ugly hand of bad fortune. Still a fairly riveting read, and especially interesting in contrast to the very light material from Kevin O’Hara.

Yeah, you get a lot of time to read when you don’t bring any electronics and the hotel TV gets 7 French channels, a German channel, a Spanish channel, BBC, and CNBC. However, I feel that I hear more (albeit depressing) news about the USA than I do in the US, probably because I’m always watching Comedy Central when I’m at home.

I was watching a Wimbledon warmup tournament match where Roger Federer beats Tommy Haas. It was a good match, and was being shown on the German channel. Every time someone served an ace, the commentators yell “Ass!” German is funny.

Anyhow, there’s still a lot to see in Paris, so I’ll get back to it.