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| C'est la vie |
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| Bonjour, Paris! |
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| If ever there was a time for French poodle shoes... |
We left Saturday morning at the crack of dawn, as you can see by our sleepy airport faces
and arrived in Paris just in time for Fashion Week! Note: Fashion Week had little to no impact on our visit as we are not Fashion People. Here's a photo of Nina outside the Grand Palais during the Mugler show, pretending to be a Fashion Person.
Highlights:
1. Getting lost trying to get from the Champs Elysees to the Notre Dame. No taxi would pick us up (Fashion Week, you see) so we took the BatoBus - a boat service that cost us 10 euros and took us to all the major tourist sites with a convenient hop-on, hop-off deal. It was the perfect solution as we got to sit in the sunshine and soak up the culture without the icky inconvenience of having to actually visit/stand in line for tourist attractions.
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| Behold: the smiles of two girls who did not have to stand in line |
2. Dinner at Entrecote - a chain restaurant with no menus, only steak-frites and endless skinny french fries. Dessert was a creme brulee which we followed up with a romantic walk along the Seine to burn off the calories! Entrecote is quite well-known and has multiple locations so I suggest trying it out if there's one nearby and be sure to thank me later. We went to the branch near Champs Elysees and queued about 30 minutes for it but the tender steak more than made up for the wait. They don't take reservations so if you're a large group I'd say arrive early to avoid disappointment.
3. Pont des Arts - the famous "lock bridge." Nina and I couldn't resist snapping a few pics and then hanging a lock to commemorate our trip!
4. City Pharma - believe the hype. This crowded, petite pharmacie in Saint-Germain-des-Pres was as exciting as all my favourite beauty bloggers led me to believe. It's commonly cited as the place makeup artists and models stock up on all the finest offerings that our Continental friends can offer and I can see why. In fact, stay tuned for an (extensive) update on that...
5. Pastries upon pastries upon pastries - we had brunch on Sunday at Angelina, a charming tearoom near the Jardin des Tuleries that is populated mainly by American tourists that rightfully deserves its reputation for the best brunch in town. At 39 EU pp for the Angelina brunch it doesn't come cheap but the price got us multiple croissants, chocolat chaud, eggs cooked your way, and a delightfully exotic fruit salad for dessert. Even the butter at this place tasted superior. I died and went to heaven. It was also full of Fashion People which was excellent for eavesdropping and spying. I planned to take dozens of photos of the food but got caught up by my incessantly grumbling stomach, so please forgive me.
6. No visit to the airport is complete without a cheeky stop at Duty Free... I treated myself to 2 mini bottles of perfume from Jo Malone which came in quite a bit cheaper than high street prices! I chose English Pear and Freesia (a scent that smells like a wedding to me, sorrynotsorry) and a replacement for my finished bottle of Orange Blossom.
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| Por quoi pas? |
7. Eventually our mini-break came to an end and it was time to say goodbye to the beautiful City of Lights that had been so good to us. Next time I plan to spend more time in the various jardins and get a feel for French history a bit more, possibly even venture into the countryside? But for a 36 hour mini break I think we did quite well.
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| Touristing |
A bientot!
xo CaitlinK
