Since we had to cut our Ernest Hemingway journey short, we decided to pick up where we left off. It's Sunday and the buses run on a limited schedule, fewer buses and fewer running times. We found a bus to take us back to rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. Hemingway lived in a courtyard facing apartment at number 113 rue Notre-Dame-des-champs. There is no marker but the apartment remains.
Next we headed to rue de Fleurus to find the apartment of Gertrude Stein, a good friend and confidant of Hemingway. Stein's apartment, number 27, was a hangout for writers and artists such as Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse just to name a few.
Now we're off to find Shakespeare & Company which was a lending library and source of inspiration, as well as a networking hub for many writers. This was the location, 12 rue de l'Odeon since 1922. The Germans closed the book store in 1940, and it never opened again. There is another Shakespeare and Company now but it is not the original.
Polidor at 41 rue Monsieur le Prince, where he dined in his poorer days, is the last stop on our Hemingway tour.
By now our feet and legs have about had it, so we're ready for the "take me home bus".
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