Winter is Coming... But NOT Today 11-1-15

Today was the sort of day I wanted everyday this year, it was the sort of day that exists as the ultimate Paris day.  The sun was out, it was warm, but not hot.  If I could have this sort of day everyday I'd be one happy camper, with one exception.
Since it was so nice we headed off to one of our favorite brocante sales, at the Porte de Vanves. It's down in the southwest part of the city and is held every Saturday and Sunday.   We spent about an hour and a half looking through the market being interested in what was on offer.  At one point I walked down a side alley where there must have been 25 or 30 little vendors set up, usually these are just people who have bought a bunch of junk at other sales and are trying to sell them for a profit, but most of these people had really nice stuff to sell so it was more fun.   As I got to the end and was turning back to go along the other side I heard a police siren (one blast), suddenly all of these vendors were grabbing their stuff and packing them into bags and duffels and boxes and whatever.  It turns out that they just set up without paying any required fee and thus were illegal so the police were rousting them.
Anyway we stayed until the vendors were packing up and then decided to go to lunch.  Since we were so close to our favorite guinguette, Javel, we decided to go there and sit next to the Seine in the sun and have lunch.  That's when the cloud appeared, evidently at the end of the outdoor season they close and literally all the building were GONE!  They were constructed of plywood and when the season ended they were torn down and carted off and the place reverted to being a parking lot, bummer.   So we got back on the tram and went back to where our last walk ended, at Parc Montsouris and found a little corner restaurant that was packed to the limit for lunch.
We had a very nice lunch of swordfish (for me) and dorade royal (for Deb) along with a carafe of Muscadet.  As lunch finished we noticed a bunch of police blocking off the street across from us and suddenly there was a pack of two or three hundred in-line skaters gliding up the road, past the restaurant, and up the hill.  Many in costume and all having a great time, very crazy.
We went into the park to walk in the sunshine and across it to the other side so that we could go the the Cite International Universitaire de Paris.  It is a series of building from the 1930's each one built by a different company to house international students from that country studying in Paris.  It was an attempt to further the "league of nations" idea after World War I.  What's funny is that there are not any classes offered just housing for students studying abroad.  My understanding is that one can rent a room during the summer at very inexpensive rates, when the students are gone.
Anyway there hundreds of people out in the commons engaging in happy sunny fall games and sunbathing.
We took the tram back to the apartment as the sun was going down.