Food, food and more food
Nick and Pauli came to visit me over the weekend. For those who don't know them they are friends of mine from sydney that I haven't seen for nearly a year and a half. They have been traveling around South America and are now living in Leeds. We had a great weekend eating and drinking and sightseeing (mostly eating and drinking).
They arrived on thursday and first night we had dinner at a cool cafe, not too far from my place. On friday while I went to work Nick and Pauli went to the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe. Friday night we went out to dinner in the latin quarter where they could try snails and duck orange, and I could have my usual, chevre chaud (warm goats cheese salad) and cheese fondue. Afterwards we sat on Pont des Arts and drank a bottle of wine, before coming home and drinking a couple more, and chatting for most of the night.
Saturday (when we finally got out of bed around lunchtime) I went to the patisserie and bought a tonne of pastries for breakfast and afterwards we went to Sacre Coeur and wandered around Montmartre and Pigale (the red light district where Moulin Rouge is). On the way home we stopped at the supermarket and bought heaps of kinds of cheese and some vege tarts for dinner and decided to buy 5 bottles of wine, as the shops are not open on sundays here and the plan was to save 2 for the next day. We went back to my place and gorged ourselves and managed to drink all 5 bottles of wine plus an extra one I had at home. Pauli passed out sometime after 3, Nick and I went to bed when the sun came up.
Sunday was a bit of a challenge but Nick and Pauli managed to make it to the Louvre by mid afternoon and I met them there a few hours later (I didn't want to go again). Afterwards we took a boat ride down the Seine, and went to a restaurant in the Marais for dinner. The food was fabulous, the tomato tart looked so good I wished I had taken a photo of it, and it tasted even better. Nick and Pauli both raved about the steak tartare and the creme brule was the best I have tasted so far and was huge! We ate so much food we could hardly walk back to the metro!
Sadly they left this morning, but promised to try to return again soon and I am hoping to go visit them in the UK.
As promised here is a link to some photos from the weekend.
posted by bec @ 9:39 pm
3 Comments:
Hey...looks like you guys had SO much fun!! I want to be in Paris!!!!!
Oks
PS. I forgot my password and have to log on as anonymous...just in case you wonder ;o)
What? All that time in the "City of Love" (incl. copious amounts of alcohol )and no proposal??!? Tsk tsk. Lazy bugger...
Bec - what was the restaurant in the Marais called? A few yrs back we went to one, and it had AMAZING food, but I couldn't remember the name of it (or where it was) so couldn't go back the last time we were there! :(
To be fair Mel, it wasn't exactly a romanic weekend. They were sleeping on my couch, and I was following them around most of the time, and we did have varying degrees of hang overs for most of the time.
But I do know where the restaurant we went to was (although I don't know the name). It was on the corner of rue de tresor (I think, but I will check next time I am in that area).
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