PARIS
September 20, 2014
To
October 1, 2014
9/20/2014 – 9/21/2014 Saturday and
Sunday
Left home around 10:00 AM and caught shuttle to the airport
at the Courtyard Marriot in Collegeville
Flew from Philadelphia to Washington Dulles and then on to
Paris Charles DeGaul. Arrived 7:08 AM
Paris time on Sunday morning. It was a
good flight.
We arrived at our hotel, Best Western St. Antoine Patio and
glory-be our room was ready 30 minutes after we arrived. We spent that half hour talking to our tour
director, Patrick Long. Who had been our
tour excellent tour director in 2008 also.
After taking a 2 hour rest we took a walk around the area of
our hotel. We walked to a street market
several blocks from our hotel. Fruits
and vegetables. Nothing we were interested in but it was beautiful produce –
and what a crowd.
Lunch
Le Funambules,
a café for lunch
Bob: Assiette De
Charcuterie (assortment of sausages)
Iris had Crostini w/ tomatoes, eggplant and cheese melted
all over it.
We both had wine, Graves
We walked back to our hotel and rested until it was time to
meet our tour group to go over some things with Patrick. Then the tour group
went to dinner.
Dinner
God Save the
Kitchen which was right up the street from our hotel/
We had
Kir sauvignon
Melted Camembert with honey and rosemary
Melon de Provence
Grilled free range chicken, gratin dauphinois ( potato
gratin)
Vanilla Homemade ice cream, small wedge of cheese cake and
chocolate cake
And a glass of Sauvignon de Tourraine “les Roches”
Then back to our hotel and ready for bed. It had been a long 2 days.
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| A picture of the outside of our hotel |
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| Vie from our room |
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| Our hotel from the lobby to the elevator |
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| God Save the Kitchen - We ate dinner here with the other members of our tour on Sunday night |
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| Looking down Rue Du Faubourg Sant Antoine towards our hotel from God Save the Kitchen |
1 comment:
Amazing. It all seems so different. Did it seem different to you while you were there? :) TFS!!!
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