It feels like I discover something I haven't noticed before around every corner in Paris. Most of the time, my “discoveries” are probably only of interest to me, but occasionally I have a find I want to share with J. I arrived a little early to meet a friend for lunch in the Place du Trocadero one day last fall (I know my parents probably think that the fact that I was early for something is the real discovery here) and I used my extra time to explore the area. When I reached the terrace between the buildings of the Palais de Chaillot, I found an amazing view of the Eiffel Tower.
I brought J up to the Trocadero to check it out months later on a day when we found ourselves in a nearby neighborhood of the 16th arrondissement. The terrace was choked with people and we could see the area around the Eiffel Tower was even more crowded. We quickly left and decided to return during the January/February lull in tourism.
We were back in the area to visit the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine the first Sunday in January when we noticed a group of people in costume headed out to the terrace. We put off entering the museum in favor of following the group to see what was going on. They were dressed as a live nativity scene and the woman in charge was passing out blue and yellow scarves and sheets of lyrics to some of the bystanders. J noticed one of the members of the group carrying a Ukrainian flag and we realized that we had stumbled into an Orthodox Christmas Eve celebration.
The people in costume started singing and we stayed for a while to enjoy the music. We laughed when we eventually headed into the museum because you really never know what you are going to run across wandering around the city.
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