Paris, S'il vous plait!
How's my French? ;-)
So next week I'm treating my significant other to a 6 day trip to Paris. It's a last minute deal for her birthday, so she's pretty excited I think.
I've been to Paris 3 times before, but the latest time was 15 years ago. I'm still confident I'll know how to get around even with my rudimentary French. I'm excited that I'll be able to show Ginny the places I really liked in Paris, like Sacre Coeur and La Tuileries, etc. We'll probably do some of the real touristy stuff like the Louvre (which I like) and the Tour Eiffel (which I don't, too touristy) because everyone has to, but the stuff I *really* like in Paris is just the day to day stuff. Things like chilling in random Cafe's (nearly all of which have awesome food and atmosphere), hanging out in the various parks and gardens (jardins), taking the Metro everywhere. Paris has the best bread in the world, when you're there you have to make it a point to get up relatively early, walk down to the local Patisserie and grab whatever pastry looks good that day. You could do that for a month and never eat the same one twice. Unlike most of the rest of the food in Paris the Patisserie's are affordable. I'm completely spoiled on Paris' pain (bread) even now, 15 years after I've had any.
So next week I'm treating my significant other to a 6 day trip to Paris. It's a last minute deal for her birthday, so she's pretty excited I think.
I've been to Paris 3 times before, but the latest time was 15 years ago. I'm still confident I'll know how to get around even with my rudimentary French. I'm excited that I'll be able to show Ginny the places I really liked in Paris, like Sacre Coeur and La Tuileries, etc. We'll probably do some of the real touristy stuff like the Louvre (which I like) and the Tour Eiffel (which I don't, too touristy) because everyone has to, but the stuff I *really* like in Paris is just the day to day stuff. Things like chilling in random Cafe's (nearly all of which have awesome food and atmosphere), hanging out in the various parks and gardens (jardins), taking the Metro everywhere. Paris has the best bread in the world, when you're there you have to make it a point to get up relatively early, walk down to the local Patisserie and grab whatever pastry looks good that day. You could do that for a month and never eat the same one twice. Unlike most of the rest of the food in Paris the Patisserie's are affordable. I'm completely spoiled on Paris' pain (bread) even now, 15 years after I've had any.