WEDNESDAY/MERCREDI CON’T
Venus de Milo in the Louvre.
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(Source: http://www.louvre.fr/)
WEDNESDAY/MERCREDI con’t
The Mona Lisa in the Louvre. I’m pretty sure I can never be a camera person.
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(Source: http://www.louvre.fr/)
WEDNESDAY/MERCREDI
I was up for the challenge
– both getting up early on vacation and to make croissants and Pain du
Chocolat. I attended a baking class at La Cuisine Paris
and understood why the flaky pastry tasted SO good. It has something to
do with the 5 pounds of butter.
That was my salmon and
broccoli quiche I had for lunch too.
I managed to walk it off
later in the day when I went to the Louvre and signed up for a treasure hunt
with THATLou. Let me tell you – it was tricky
but I never learned so much about the artifacts and paintings in such a clever
and unique way (sadly I lost – next time I would do this as a team of two at
least!)
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TUESDAY/MARDI con’t
We stopped at this place called Aux Merveilleux de Fred which specializes in flavourful meringues and brioche. (Note: they have a shop in NY!). They are amazing.
I took a photo of the Karl Lagerfeld store, but alas it was closed when we went back to check it out.
Let me explain about the radish sandwich. It was delicious. Butter bread, butter, sea salt and a radish shaped like a cocktail sausages rather than the round ones we get in the North America.
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TUESDAY/MARDI
Roaming the streets to pick up some freshly baked croissants was a great idea. From Bastille, I walked to the Hotel de Ville in the Marais. I read somewhere that designer Giambattista Valli’s headquarters are actually in the Hotel de Ville (which is the building in the first photo)!
Later in the day, I went on a food tour of Marais organized by La Cuisine Paris. It was interesting to learn about area and have a taste of the different specialities I wouldn’t normally go after.
We walked along the Quai De L’Hotel De Ville, across La Seine to the Ile St-Louis which was so small it only had three streets. Then we looped around to the oldest street in Paris – Rue de Rosiers.
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