Going to the Zoo,Zoo,Zoo

Nglia is a fan of zoos and as luck would have it, the zoo is only 5 stops along our metro line.

She got the map and marshalled her troops like a seasoned general.

At the end of the visit Ngila declared, "This map is only hours old and it is toast".

It's a very manageable zoo and very pretty - a cross between a zoo and a botanical garden.

There is a huge, man made mountain as a focal point. In our opinion, it should have had mountain goats leaping over and around it but there were none.

It was hot!

But we were marched into all areas by our intrepid leader and saw everything

except the lemurs. For some reason beyond our understanding, they had all been "banished to their bedrooms".

Ngila is a big fan of the "Great British Bake Off" TV show. Many of the contestants use rosewater to flavour their baking. The treats in our picnic lunch were from the Middle Eastern bakery down our street. Ngila came taste to taste with rosewater.

The giraffes were a star attraction. They are the 15th generation of one that was sent as a gift to King Charles X from Egypt. The boat carrying this female landed in Marseille and the poor thing was made to walk 880 kms to the King's private garden in Paris. Where the father of the generations came from was not told to us.

A cool drink in the shade of a sidewalk cafe was a fitting end to our day.