Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Headline: Paris
Apartment maisons; traffic; peugeots; pate; petit fours; coffee; brass bands; people from all over the world melting together - Greeks, Arabs, Indians, French, English, Aiussies, Germans; glamour; squalour; flowering window boxes; rubbish...It's Saturday evening and I'm drinking coffee, writing in my diary, listening to an 11 piece big band in Rue de Mont Ceris next to Secre Coeur Montmarte (the church built on the hill above Montmarte as part of the reparations after WW1) just around the corner from the best view in Paris...Merci Beaucoup!!
Postscript: Actually with hindsight I can categorically say the best view in Paris is off the Eiffel Tower but when I wrote this it was the best view I'd seen...
Montmarte happened to have a regional food market happening - tried pate, champagne, watched bands and people. Amazing introduction to Paris. Watched them cook sugar coated nuts, crepes, mushrooms and chestnuts. Feasted my eyes and nose on cured meats, salamis and cheeses...mmm...
Apartment maisons; traffic; peugeots; pate; petit fours; coffee; brass bands; people from all over the world melting together - Greeks, Arabs, Indians, French, English, Aiussies, Germans; glamour; squalour; flowering window boxes; rubbish...It's Saturday evening and I'm drinking coffee, writing in my diary, listening to an 11 piece big band in Rue de Mont Ceris next to Secre Coeur Montmarte (the church built on the hill above Montmarte as part of the reparations after WW1) just around the corner from the best view in Paris...Merci Beaucoup!!
Postscript: Actually with hindsight I can categorically say the best view in Paris is off the Eiffel Tower but when I wrote this it was the best view I'd seen...
Montmarte happened to have a regional food market happening - tried pate, champagne, watched bands and people. Amazing introduction to Paris. Watched them cook sugar coated nuts, crepes, mushrooms and chestnuts. Feasted my eyes and nose on cured meats, salamis and cheeses...mmm...
# posted by The Essence of Good Taste @ 2:20 PM 
