or soak up sun. If you head back down toward the river, you can loop around the back of the Cluny Museum and investigate the small streets which have now been inundated by Tunisian kebab shops and wannabee Greek restaurants. No self respecting Greek with a good restaurant will stand on the street and break plates for you. This is what you will find in the ultra-touristy rue de la Huchette . These guys mostly pose as Greeks by yelling OPA! and crunching broken plates on the sidewalk under their shiny shoes. I love a good North African specialty, so why these places are determined to make you think you are in Athens, when you are clearly not, is beyond me but maybe you were on your way to Athens and just kinda got stuck here and this will have to do. How good the food is I could not tell you having done little more than chat with the doormen but they create very appetizing window displays that may entice you to enter. There are a few bars, some with live music, romantic singer-songwriters on piano or guitar, male or female. If you are on a budget you will find plenty of fast food joint, souvlaki shops, sushi, bakeries, Indian and 'authentic French cooking', written in big letters in English so it must be true. Keep walking down the alley, cross the street and you will eventually run into the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore at #37 rue de la