sometimes i like to pretend that i'm in paris for a day and what i'd do. don't worry...there isn't any rush to see things because these visits happen quite frequently :)unfortunately it's rainy in paris today so i'll make sure to take my umbrella as i head out. first i'll hit up a patisserie for une tarte framboisse and a demi baguette to snack on later. since it's a rainy spring day i think i'll visit musee marmottan to see the degas stashed in the basement. walk the edges of ile saint-louis. stop at a small market to get some ripe fruit, maybe a pear today, and some camembert cheese to eat with my baguette. sit for awhile watching people and the river seine. if i'm yearning for something sweet (which i always am) stop at the italian gelato shop and get scoop of nutella ice cream. maybe i'll go to pere lachaise cemetery and wander...seems an appropriate activity for a rainy day. finally i'll end my day eating poulet et frites at le quasimodo near notre dame cathedral. i'll make sure to get a table under the awning so i can watch paris transition into night.
i miss you paris but i'll be back again soon :)
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i love it! ugh, heartbreak...i miss paris too! sounds like a good day to me :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm... My day in Paris? I haven't been brave enough to venture back there for one day, especially since my Paris needs are so deficient at the moment that twenty four hours couldn't possibly satiate me.
ReplyDeleteWhere to start? Well I wake up in Croissy sur Seine, there is something about the light coming in my yellow bedroom that just makes me feel so alive and French. Then I walk to the metro on the small gravel sidewalk where the branches dip dew on my head as I pass. I do my classy Parisian speed walk for the last leg to the metro, flying through the turning wheel with my Carte orange while the greasy haired Parisian boys fight to jump over the others.. I read my vingt minute for the first 5 minutes of the ride, then inconspicuously watch the solemn Parisians around me from the top of my most recent French novel. At Charle de Gaulles Etoile I change metro lines to Line 1 vers Chateau de Vincennes, which I would take all the way until Louvre Rivoli... I've always wanted to walk all the way from le Palais Royale to and through the Tuileries, then place de la concorde, and then les Invalides. Which I never fully consumed while there the summer previously. After I've gotten my share of that, I take the metro to Monceau to have lunch (bought in the Monceau region at a petit boulangerie) in my favorite park of all time. http://s0.ilike.com/play#Yves+Duteil:Au+parc+Monceau:2323153:m36787761
To finish my day I return to the landing that overlooks the Seine and the Eiffel tower, je goute un crepe salle as the sun falls and the tower begins to twinkle. I might just fall asleep here in my dream world so I never have to leave....
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great post Kates. You know Paris so well.
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