Paris

I have finally gotten hold of a computer for long enough to write something! We have now been in France for 13 days! We spent the first 10 days driving around the French countryside then we dropped the car back to de Gaulle Airport (without too much drama) and then came into the city!

We are staying in a tiny boutique hotel in the St Paul Village (next to the Marais) surrounded by little shops full of antiques and art as well as boulangeries and divine clothing shops.

Yesterday we spent the afternoon at The Ritz Cooking School where we learnt the art of chocolate making. It was simply divine and we had a ball. We now have enough chocolates to feed the entire French Gendarmerie!

Today we started the day in The Marais, watching the Hasidic Jews go to synagogue then went to the Pompidou Centre then back to the Jewish Art Gallery and Museum of Paris, always with Notre Dame in site.

We then strolled down to The Louvre where we looked through the textiles museum there and ate in the lovely (but very expensive!) restaurant there.

We strolled some more, had a rest then went off to the Left Bank to the Pantheon and Sorbonne. What a beautiful part of Paris. I have only quickly walked through this area before so it was nice to take it easy and absorb the beauty of the Latin Quarter.

Dinner was at a little Iraqi Restaurant where we had a beautiful meal each.

Tomorrow we will head up to Montmatre.

I will have to update my blog day by day, more in depth when I get home. Internet (public) is very rare here and quite costly when you do find it!

Au revoir,

Bev and Claire