Pastries, Chocolates & Paintings
Trip Start
May 02, 2008
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Trip End
May 31, 2008
Paris,
France
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- Musee D'Orsay: lots of beautiful paintings though we only got to look at part of one floor (because we got up late) then had to go to meet our tour guide for The Chocolate & Pastries tour!
- Just the tour guide and us (again). Walked around the Left Bank & Latin Quarter areas. Went to 4 chocolate shops, 2 patisseries, and one bread bakery. Each was soooo amazing & sooo yummy! Chocolate & desserts really are an art form in Paris! I love this place!
- Some display their chocolates like jewellery & the packaging they give you when you buy some reflects this (some jewellery is also cheaper!)
Musee D'Orsay
. One shop sculpts its own moulds & creates animals, busts of famous people, Paris scenes etc. Heaven!- Many have been in business since the early 1900's (or earlier)!
- The cakes are the same: you want to have them all but then you won't fit through the door!
- We are now officially little Porkers
- The tour also included a visit to Eglise St Sulpice, an old church from the 18th Century where the murderous scene from The Da Vinci Code was set; plus the Luxembourg Gardens.
- After the tour, we walked along the river, then through Jardin des Plantes ("Garden of Plants" - good name huh?)
- Accosted by a crazy old French woman who exhausted our knowledge of French in about 30 seconds then wanted us to eat at her favourite cafe (where President Mitteron ate apparently)
- Dinner at a great cafe in Rue Mouffetard, a fantastic street in the Latin Quarter & headed home with very sore feet. Jeff tried foie gras ... quite nice.
