My sister Susan and I visited France and Italy this past May. While it was only 10 months ago, it seems like a different lifetime. Paris is now the epicenter of the coronavirus in France, and it's residents are under very strict stay-at-home rules to help control the virus. No more hanging out at cafes like the one in the photograph above, at least for the time being. People in Paris generally live in small apartments, and treat the cafes and streets like their living room, and so they all must be going quite stir crazy by now. Even when they go out for exercise, they are required to stay within 1 kilometer of home (a little over half a mile), can only be outside for a maximum of 1 hour per day, and absolutely no bicycling. Let's all hope this pandemic ends soon. And by the way, La Terrasse, the cafe in the above photograph, is located right next to the Ecole Militaire Metro stop, right around the corner from Rue Cler, where my sister and I stayed when we were in Paris. I am quite sure it looks nothing like that today. How sad.
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