Adventures

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Paris post Bastille Day

It is Sunday afternoon and we have just returned from a visit to the Musee D'Orsay and a stroll through the Left Bank. So far our escape to Paris has been wonderful! Dinner on Friday night was amazing; truffled egg, baked cod, beef with truffle, a plate of cheeses, dessert of strawberries with pastry and chocolates to end it off! Of course, wine was paired with each course resulting in a state of inebriation for both of us by the time we left after three and a half hours! We stumbled back to our hotel through the rain, laughing and hugging the whole way. Saturday started with a late rising (noonish) as we adjusted to Paris time (and hangovers) and then a full day of ground pounding. We visited beautiful Sainte Chapelle for the first time and enjoyed a stroll through the Luxembourg gardens. Dinner was a bit more low key than Friday night. We ate at a place called Le Grenouille which of course had frogs legs as a speciality. Lisa has the frog legs while Christos had the magret. Yummy! Then it was off to the Place Des Invalides to watch the fireworks at Tour Eiffel over a bottle of wine. After the firework show we walked back to the hotel, got lost, had a bottle of wine and finally arrived in bed at 2am.

 Today we viewed the lovely paintings at Musee D'Orsay. The Van Goghs were tops and we enjoyed the Monets etc as well. A new name for us as an artist is Maximilien Luce whose work we both enjoyed. There were also some other realist pieces based on North Africa that we both thought were stunning. After the Musee D'Orsay we emerged into rain but that didn't last too long. The weather has been weird, beautiful sun and perfect temperature interspersed with the occasional rain shower.

On our way back to the hotel we stumbled upon an oyster bar we had visited years ago and proceeded to eat our way through two dozen of the bivalves. We chatted with the owner, the waitress and a patron about the gastronomy of oysters and discovered that today was the last day of the season ... And that there is a street party tonight outside the oyster restaurants to celebrate! That is certainly on the agenda for ce soir!
Back at the hotel we discovered that our package from Sylvie arrived! We are now back in the room and once this entry is done we are going to go through all the goodies she has made for us.

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