This morning is market morning but now that school is finished it's just so nice to sleep in and we're in no hurry to get going. Eventually we head out mid-morning to Marché Aligre, about a 10 minute walk from home and in full swing on a Saturday morning. It's fun shopping at the outdoor market for lovely fresh fruit and vegetables, and the indoor market has the most delicious looking selections of meats, fish, cheeses, dips, olives, you name it!
We buy several varieties of cheese from the indoor market and can't resist the smell of the poulet on the rotisserie and the pommes de terre roasting in the juices underneath - mmmm, that will be dinner tonight! On the way home we stop in at the boulangerie for une baguette, so this is our lunch today........
This afternoon we spend several hours strolling in a cemetery - but not just any cemetery, this is the famous Cimetière du Père Lachaise, only about a 20 minute walk from home for us, and the resting place of many (and varied!) celebs such as Chopin, Bizet, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. It's an interesting juxtaposition of really old right next to brand new, famous beside unknown (except to loved ones).........
The place is huge and you definitely need a map to locate the more famous graves, but the cemetery itself is a beautiful place and having never wandered in one before (for pleasure, that is) I really enjoy the peace and quiet and the lovely tree-lined cobbled avenues.
After so much walking we've earned a treat, so on the way back home we indulge at the patisserie and the chocolate shop.........again....... ;-)
24/3/13 Sunday
Hillsong Paris again today - we go to the later service and this time we catch the Metro - much quicker!! It's back to cold weather today so it's coats, scarves and gloves again. Church is enjoyable but it's after 2pm by the time we finish and we're starving! Today we lunch at a fabulous Restaurant Japonais where they serve a range of set menus and both of ours include skewers of delicious soft cheese wrapped in wafer-thin beef and cooked on the grill - it's amazing but not what you would usually have in a Japanese restaurant!
This afternoon we'd hoped to go to the Paris catacombs but the queue is down the street and around the corner so we have second thoughts and decide to try again another day. The catacombs have been closed for maintenance and only reopened yesterday, so maybe in a week or so the crowd will have thinned somewhat......... or perhaps that's just wishful thinking ;-)
Instead we head towards St-Germain des Près, finding last week's lolly vendor on the way (yes, this time we stop...........) We also give in to temptation and enjoy crêpes au citron sucre for afternoon tea - too delicious to pass up! Crêpe vendors often have their hotplates set up in a little window at the front of a restaurant so you can stand on the footpath to order and then watch your crêpe being created.
For tonight's dinner we have delicious soup - a team effort, with my wonderful man grating an apple and an entire butternut pumpkin and finely chopping an onion because we are sans blender!!
And with it we have the remainder of the baguette and more of our market cheese - mmmmm!!!!! Funny, today's blog appears to be mostly about food............ :-)
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