Last day in Paris
We woke up late again, packed up, checked out and made our way into St Germain to find breakfast, or something like it.
We decided we'd try and find Androuet, a famous Parisian cheese shop and grab some bread and frommage for a walking breakfast around Paris. We were unable to locate the shop at the address listed on the site - there are other locations, so perhaps it had moved recently. Apparently it's worth the trip.
Instead we wound up going to a bit of a touristy place, I put it down to poor judgement due to extreme hunger, and ordered some wine, cheese fondue and a salad nicoise. Turned out we didn't need the salad as the fondue came with one and it was so stringy and rich that Jus nearly choked. It was nowhere near as good as on 2005 experience with fondue on a mountaintop in Swizterland.
We pushed on to Ile St Louis, where we'd visited briefly yesterday, to again sample some of the famouse Berthollie ice cream - it was so fabulous yesterday that we made a special trip today to get more. In this we were not disappointed.
We then had a brief stint on a Seine river cruise then made out way up to Montmarte, an incredible chapel with a view of Paris to rival the Eiffel tower. By this stage tho I was footsore, hot and sweaty. The downpour which opened up as we arrived didn't dissipate the heat - only made us wetter and increased the humidity - already at 77%. By the time we'd walked to the top of the hill I was grumpy and out of sorts. We took in the view and headed back to the Metro to meet our connection to the airport.
We've now been waiting in lines for the better part of two hours. Emirates is the worst airline I've ever flown and the check in desk at Charles de Gaulle airport is so freakin' slow - we only had five or six people in front of us in the web check-in line and it still took nearly an hour. Same story with the tax refund line.
We've managed to upgrade our flights to Dubai to exit aisle seats, which is a blessing, but we're back in the true cattle class for the flight from Dubai to Sydney. We haven't organised tickets to Melbourne yet, so hopefully we'll get some cheaply on stand by.
If I can get online at Dubai or Bankok, I will.
Otherwise - Au revoir!
We decided we'd try and find Androuet, a famous Parisian cheese shop and grab some bread and frommage for a walking breakfast around Paris. We were unable to locate the shop at the address listed on the site - there are other locations, so perhaps it had moved recently. Apparently it's worth the trip.
Instead we wound up going to a bit of a touristy place, I put it down to poor judgement due to extreme hunger, and ordered some wine, cheese fondue and a salad nicoise. Turned out we didn't need the salad as the fondue came with one and it was so stringy and rich that Jus nearly choked. It was nowhere near as good as on 2005 experience with fondue on a mountaintop in Swizterland.
We pushed on to Ile St Louis, where we'd visited briefly yesterday, to again sample some of the famouse Berthollie ice cream - it was so fabulous yesterday that we made a special trip today to get more. In this we were not disappointed.
We then had a brief stint on a Seine river cruise then made out way up to Montmarte, an incredible chapel with a view of Paris to rival the Eiffel tower. By this stage tho I was footsore, hot and sweaty. The downpour which opened up as we arrived didn't dissipate the heat - only made us wetter and increased the humidity - already at 77%. By the time we'd walked to the top of the hill I was grumpy and out of sorts. We took in the view and headed back to the Metro to meet our connection to the airport.
We've now been waiting in lines for the better part of two hours. Emirates is the worst airline I've ever flown and the check in desk at Charles de Gaulle airport is so freakin' slow - we only had five or six people in front of us in the web check-in line and it still took nearly an hour. Same story with the tax refund line.
We've managed to upgrade our flights to Dubai to exit aisle seats, which is a blessing, but we're back in the true cattle class for the flight from Dubai to Sydney. We haven't organised tickets to Melbourne yet, so hopefully we'll get some cheaply on stand by.
If I can get online at Dubai or Bankok, I will.
Otherwise - Au revoir!
posted by Kelsey Brookes at 4:23 am
3 Comments:
Thank you, KB, for describing your Parisian impressions. It was very relevant for me to read just them, cause I am going to Paris in July; among the others' your look got to be very understandable and true.
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