Pastries, Coffee and Wine
Sunday, April 1, 2007
I could only be referring to one place: Paris. As soon as I arrived I fell in love with the city. It is just simply gorgeous. There are cafes and patisseries on every corner filled with the most incredible looking cakes that you have ever seen. The streets are so cute and each corner you turn is a mystery. The wine is cheap and delicious! And of course there is the most amazing Eiffel Tower. So many reasons I love this city!
One of my favourite areas was Montmarte, where traditionally a lot artists used to live and work. Here at the highest point in Paris is the Sacre Coeur, which is a beautiful church overlooking the city. Below this is the Montmarte area which has lovely narrow streets filled with cafes and so many different surprises. Here we past just another patisserie (which was their slogan) and saw a huge line to get in. We though that it had to be good so we lined up stared at the most amazing cakes, narrowed it down to three and gobbled them down in a nearby park. Later we stopped and ate and lovely cheese and met platter with red wine outside a cafe on the pavement in traditional Parisien style.
This post wont all be about food, I promise. Of course we did the usual tourist things and in Paris there are a lot of them. We took a day explored the amazing Notre Dame Cathedral, The Arc de Triomphe, the busy concord intersection and the Eiffel Tower. You see so many photos of it but it really is stunning. We went to the very top and saw a spectacular view of Paris, decided to wait an hour for the sun to set and saw the city lit up by night. As we came down a little light show went off: lights started flickering up and down the tower and it really was the most amazing thing to see.
We of course went to the Lourve, probably the most famous museum in the world. It is absolutely enormous. We spent about 3 hours in their and got about two thirds done, after rushing through some parts! The Mona Lisa was behind thick glass with two guards standing each side of her. It wasn't the most amazing thing to be seen. The building was wonderful. Another museum of sorts was one that housed human bones: The Catacombs. We walked through dark tunnels with so many bones, some belonging to famous French people. It was so spooky and I freaked out when I came face to face with them!
Other than that Paris was all about exploring cool areas, like The Marais, The Latin Quarter and St Germaine Du Prais, the later being a very expensive cafe scene where I paid about $7 AU for a cup of coffee (I did sit outside which caused the price to rise!). It was also about eating $12 Euro 3 course lunches at really cool cafes and having picnics on the banks of the Seine with a baguette and a bottle of red.
Click here for photos
One of my favourite areas was Montmarte, where traditionally a lot artists used to live and work. Here at the highest point in Paris is the Sacre Coeur, which is a beautiful church overlooking the city. Below this is the Montmarte area which has lovely narrow streets filled with cafes and so many different surprises. Here we past just another patisserie (which was their slogan) and saw a huge line to get in. We though that it had to be good so we lined up stared at the most amazing cakes, narrowed it down to three and gobbled them down in a nearby park. Later we stopped and ate and lovely cheese and met platter with red wine outside a cafe on the pavement in traditional Parisien style.
This post wont all be about food, I promise. Of course we did the usual tourist things and in Paris there are a lot of them. We took a day explored the amazing Notre Dame Cathedral, The Arc de Triomphe, the busy concord intersection and the Eiffel Tower. You see so many photos of it but it really is stunning. We went to the very top and saw a spectacular view of Paris, decided to wait an hour for the sun to set and saw the city lit up by night. As we came down a little light show went off: lights started flickering up and down the tower and it really was the most amazing thing to see.
We of course went to the Lourve, probably the most famous museum in the world. It is absolutely enormous. We spent about 3 hours in their and got about two thirds done, after rushing through some parts! The Mona Lisa was behind thick glass with two guards standing each side of her. It wasn't the most amazing thing to be seen. The building was wonderful. Another museum of sorts was one that housed human bones: The Catacombs. We walked through dark tunnels with so many bones, some belonging to famous French people. It was so spooky and I freaked out when I came face to face with them!
Other than that Paris was all about exploring cool areas, like The Marais, The Latin Quarter and St Germaine Du Prais, the later being a very expensive cafe scene where I paid about $7 AU for a cup of coffee (I did sit outside which caused the price to rise!). It was also about eating $12 Euro 3 course lunches at really cool cafes and having picnics on the banks of the Seine with a baguette and a bottle of red.
Click here for photos
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