petit dejeuner

In addition to boules, The Metro Hotel offered a French-style breakfast consisting of coffee and crêpes with strawberry, banana and Nutella. Plus a side of French pop music.

boules

Boules in French, bocce in Italian. I guess we play it in American English.

the footbridge

After dinner we took the footbridge across the Petaluma River, a focal point of this revitalized section of the city. There's still work to be done but on the whole this is a pretty pleasant community space with shops, restaurants and strolling opportunities.

Wild Goat Bistro

Where we had dinner in the Great Petaluma Mill.

Metro Hotel

If ever a person were looking for a French-themed hotel in Petaluma, this would be it!

Avid Coffee

The coffee house that we stumbled upon on downtown Petaluma's 4th Street, which turned out to be a very good place to sit, read, and pass time until our next hotel was ready for us.

the 4th Street experience

Going a little deeper into the town after lunch, we stumbled upon this beautiful building - an old Carnegie Library turned museum and historical society - and an equally peaceful street - 4th Street - with interesting shops and a very good coffee shop called Avid. The impulsively taken photo above is one of my favorite of the whole trip.