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24 April 2007

Paris: Not just the city of lights

It is also the cty of pastries and wine and cheese and the tastiest duck in honey sauce and so much more. Therefore, this shall be detailled in list form:


  • Duck in honey sauce served with green bean, and chips preceded by Caprese salad, eaten with a beautiful bottle of Rose' and followed by espresso and creme brulee'. The waiter asked Jeremy how to say Creme brulee' in english, we thought that was funny.
  • The Louvre is freaking HUGE! I think it might be bigger than Port Huron, and it definitely has cooler stuff.
  • I did see the Mona Lisa even though I was planning to avoid it and the surrounding crowds in favour of other works of art. I liked the rooms of religous art from the 13th and 14th centuries a lot more.
  • We spent a lot of time looking at the objects d'art and the egyptian artifacts.
  • The Pompidou Centre was super awesome! There was loads of really great stuff there and I like the design of the building. Also thise year both the Pompidou Centre and I both turned 30.
  • We saw Notre Dame and then sat by the Seine and ate ice cream cones.
  • We bought a giant box of chocolates made with all sort of different spices and fruits
  • We had mint tea with honey at the Mosque de Paris
  • Baclava at the Mosque de Paris
  • Modigliani's grave at Père Lachaise we also saw Jim Morrison's grave and all the grafiti that the lousy hippie's left in their wake over the years. Scratching your name onto a strange's grave is like the least okay thing you can do in the world.
  • The grave of journalist Victor Noir, with it's ahem, life size protuberance.
  • Actally Pere Lachaise was one of my very favorite places in all of Paris. I'm not usually such a goth but it was totally amazing. I'll post pictures later.

There was just so much nice about this last weekend. Even at 4 days it was way too short, yesterday afternoon I took pictures of our bare feet dangling over the Seine and felt so sad about the quickly approaching end of our holiday. 30 started well, I hope it stays that way

5 Comments:

  • At 24 April 2007 at 13:59, Blogger Alannah said…

    Lovely!

    And that meal you described? PURE HEAVEN. My mouth was watering just reading about it.

    So glad you could get away. Happy belated birthday!

     
  • At 24 April 2007 at 14:49, Blogger carolyn says said…

    man, it was so so so so good. the duck was perfect, crispy around the edges and pink and soft in the middle, not at all gristly like duck can get sometimes, just soft and delicious and the honey sauce wasn't overly sweet. just right. and oh the creme brulee'.

    and all that after a long day of wandering all over the city, we were so hungry that we had actually passed hungry and forgotten how good food could taste.

    oh and i forgot! we finisdhed it off with some delicious chestnut liqueur. Jeremy almost said no to the apertif but i said yeah we'll have that drink we are on vacation!

     
  • At 24 April 2007 at 15:00, Blogger 5 of 9er said…

    Hopefully there was lots of smooching too... it was Paris you know. :)

     
  • At 24 April 2007 at 15:10, Blogger carolyn says said…

    i don't kiss and tell, sir!

     
  • At 27 April 2007 at 13:26, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Sounds like a lovely holiday!

     

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