I had a day to live out a Paris fantasy and it looked like these next
few blog posts.
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| Laudrée window. |
Most of my time was spent in the swanky Left Bank
arrondissement of St. Germain. This was Tuesday, May 13, the swearing-in
of the new president, François Hollande, so there were gendarme
(policemen) aplenty on the major streets.
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| Laudrée inside. |
But over coffee in a café at St. Germain, one would never know. The weather was maniacal: sunny, rainy, inside-out-umbrella-windy. But none of that could shroud the city's irresistible charms.
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| Café crème with shortbread spoon at Cuisine de Bar. Check out the shortbread spoon!!! |
I took a food tour with Meg of Paris by Mouth, who taught me all kinds of things about French food. Photos and tidbits are from this tour and a visit with friend Elisabeth, a multiple-generation Parisienne, who knew so well about the food institutions that have been here for years.
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| Cannelé from Bon Marché, the largest gourmet food hall in Paris. |
À bientôt.
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