Our last day in Paris, and I must admit, a part of me was very happy to be heading back home to Aix and my little cabinon. The big city was, well, BIG - and full of yucky tourists!!
We started our last day by wandering through the Latin Quarter including a visit to the Jardin de Luxembourg. We took up the Champs Elysees where we had left off on our first night in town and wandered along towards our last big attraction - the Arc de Triomphe. Pretty impressive, but we decided to leave climbing it for our next visit to Paris - now we have to go back some time!! We have made a little habit of offering to take photos of other pairs or families at the various monuments... and then they’ve taken ours! Its been great! when looking for someone to take our photo we look for someone with a fancy camera in the hope they will know what they’re doing. :) Its important to wait until after the massive orange tour bus goes past!!
Our last mission for the day and for Paris was to utilise our metro passes to the extreme - really got our money’s worth - and travel to the other side of town from our accommodation and hunt down the world’s best caramel macaroon. Near the place de Abesses - at the metro station of the same name... around a corner, you will find a boulangerie called “Coquelicot” www.coquelicot-montmartre.com Delicious!!! I can personally vouch for the macaroons and chocolate eclairs and I can tell you on that day (Tuesday) around lunch time there was a line out the door, permanently!! we had lunch in a cafe on the other side of the road. We bought a couple of macaroons and some other treats. We even managed to save one for the TGV.
On this day we also discovered the yellow cherries - divine, and I reunited with the green plums - delish, not to mention numerous nectarines, peaches and apricots - gotta luv summer!!
We made the cross town journey back to the hotel, had our last little chat with Valerie, the guy who worked on the reception desk and loved Megan as she learnt a new phrase to practice on him each day, and headed off to the Gare de Lyon for the TGV home. A great few days in Paris.
We made the TGV and got home to Aix with no problems. The lovely Becky picked us up at the bus stop which was great with all our bags and we had a beautiful BBQ dinner and cocktail party with the gang here. A wonderful homecoming and introduction for Megan!!
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