So far the best food I've had has been pasta. Go figure. The rest hasn't been bad, mind you (except for lunch at the zoo today), but the pasta has been outstanding.
My clearest memories of my last trip to Paris (living with other American students at a dorm near the Sorbonne in the summer of 1978) involve fresh crepes and ice cream, eaten on the street. I haven't changed much.
Emma's favorite thing so far? The leather jacket. She didn't expect Paris to be so much like New York - such a big, modern, noisy, dirty city. I'm not sure what she expected, but it wasn't this.
Random uninformed purchases of wine have worked out well so far, both at restaurants and at the grocery store. Emma: Wow. In France you can buy wine in the grocery store. David: In most parts of the US you can buy wine in the grocery store. We live in Pennsylvania, and they have different rules. Emma: I told you that was a dumb choice. You should have stayed in California.
Seen in a furniture store on the Rue de Rivoli yesterday - a dresser with a variety of travel stamps and postmarks, including a postmark from Sayre, PA.
It's more challenging than I'd expected not to have a printer. Boarding passes (as a backup to the electronic version), concert tickets (a program of Vivaldi and Bach at St Chapelle on Monday), random other things. Amazing what we become dependent on. We printed the boarding passes at the CyberCafe and we'll see if the hotel in Stockholm has a business center where they can print the tickets for us on Sunday before we leave to come back to Paris.
10:00 PM (or 2200 as they say here) and all's well. Time to pack for Sweden and go to bed.
My favorite leather jacket that I ever bought and wine in the grocery store were my most interesting parts of Paris, too.
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ReplyDeleteI need a glossary for all the different alcoholic beverages you have posted about on FB!!
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