Saturday, August 15, 2009

Day 1

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Petit dejeuner - fresh baked croissants, pain au chocolat (still warm) plus these mad little brioche buns filled with a light custard and studded with sugar crystals. Also crispy baguette with stupidly good French butter and strawberry jam.

Dejeuner - tartare de boeuf (sloppy textured spicy oniony meaty goodness) with crunchy bread and wicked frites. Pint of Leffe blonde (on tap EVERYWHERE!!). Awesome.

Snack - vanilla jasmine tea, apricot and thyme clafoutis.

I Haven`t Even Had Dinner Yet!!!

Today's Highlights included - 
* visitng a salon du the par Mariage Freres, one of Paris' leading tea houses
* popping into two consecutive boutique parfumeries and discovering sweet scents
* admiring les plus belles filles francaises....amazing
* Sacre Coeur, the area surrounding Montmatre and a little Dali museum we found (!?)
* a visit to the European Photography Gallery, showcasing an exhibition by Henry Cartier-Bresson (the French master) and an Italian by the name of Fernando Scianna. Vy Good.

Off to Sancerre tomorrow morning - let the wine tasting begin

Oh ps its 30 degrees plus - i'm in thongs ;)

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