Usually our dinner is a romantic tete-a-tete of microwaved Picard meal-in-a-bag, eaten from the dining table that pulls out from under the desk in our room, while watching BBC World News.
However, beware of becoming too engrossed in whatever you’re doing in France (or anywhere in Europe, really) on a Sunday or holiday. Suddenly you find [...]
Archive for November 15th, 2008
Dinner at Chartier
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Still more visuals – Bastille, the 19th, & the Canal St-Martin
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After hitting Place des Vosges, we biked out to Bastille (ground zero for the French Revolution) and ate our 2nd breakfast, squinting in the sun (!!) on a thankfully well-heated terrace. As the sun retreated, we biked up to the nether-regions of the 19th arrondissement and found a rather village-like neighbourhood that I think is [...]
More visuals: Place des Vosges
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On the Remembrance Day holiday, we decided to revisit some of our old haunts from 2005 before checking out a few new ‘hoods. We used to like to lurk around Place des Vosges in the Marais, the oldest part of Paris. Long ago it was the haunt of royalty, but is now a combo of chic shopping [...]
And now some visuals: view from le Pont des Arts
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Admittedly, most of the time we wander around Paris we’ve got an apartment-hunting mindset, so we’re taking pictures of boring things like street signs and shopping districts so we can keep neighbourhoods organized in our heads.
That being said, these were taken at the end of our first day (Nov 4) as we fought jet-lag & [...]
