Boxing Day 12-26-15

Quite a lovely day today, we got out for a walk along our canal.  We walked down to the Rotonde at Stalingrad and then back to the apartment.  We did find a new organic grocery which looks very promising for our shopping so now we have two within easy walking distance.

As we were crossing the canal I noticed that someone had taken the time to chalk a design on the concrete parapet of the stairway and it was very pretty, also a fair amount of work.

Also in my reading I found that Pierre and Marie Curie had conducted much of their research on Radium and radioactivity at a facility in Aubervilliers, which is a suburb probably 2 kilometers from here. That might help explain why we found that she had lived about 10 minutes away from us on Avenue Jean Jaures.  I've been pondering why she would have lived up here virtually since we arrived and now at least I have an idea.