Let the shopping (and eating) begin!!

Sunday 6^th October.

Breakfast is served in the sub-floor level in the hotel which is a relief because we weren’t sure where we’d eat today. It’s 6 euros each for a typical French breakfast. Croissant, baguette, real butter, honey and jam with a tea, coffee or chocolat chaud. Oh, and o.j first.

First Sunday of the month is free admission day for many museums and galleries in Paris, but I forgot about that. Only remembered when we saw the gigantic queue at the Pompidou Centre. Not really up for any more culture anyway. We’re going shopping! Did some reconnaissance the other week so we know where we’re headed. We pass the Notre Dame and being the weekend, the queue is also impressively long.

Notre Dame in the sun.

Lunch today is going to be at a place we saw on the Left Bank, can’t keep away from that area! It’s called Le Marathon at 14 rue St Severin. 3 courses for 10 euros which sounds ok, and turns out that the first course would have done! Trevor had a great big bowl of mussels and I had pate and salad, then we had turkey escallop cooked in cream and herbs (Trevor) and Boeuf Burgundy (me) then good old trustable ice cream (Trevor) and mousse au chocolat (moi). I’m done with the ski pants, can you tell?

Gargoyle at Eglise St Severin

Serious shopping taken care of and a few photos clicked off because today we are actually seeing Paris without the grey skies and we even see some sunshine. Temperature on the street sign says 19 C so it’s pretty good. Back to the hotel for a break then we’re going to venture even further north (a few blocks more!) to find Passage Brady, the Indian and Pakistani area where there is supposed to be some good food at a reasonable price.Venue for dinner.