I didn’t even have to break into my emergency just in case of a sugar crash madeleine-in-a-cellophane pouch today!
Hurray for the Shakespeare & Co. Cafe encore as well as Cidrerie du Marais!
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At last! Yay Shakespeare & Co. Cafe!
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Good (cough) afternoon from Paris after another night of jet lag.
Today’s plan: laundry, see the swans, and hopefully a meal in between that isn’t from the Monoprix. (But how very grateful I am for the Monoprix. Last night’s chick pea tagine in shelf-stable packaging and microwaved frozen peas saved me from having to fend off hunger in some late night bar that serves nothing veggie or pescetarian. People come to France to eat but I find this the biggest challenge, between the language barrier, the dizzying array of choices, the meat-heavy cuisine, the need for advance reservations for anywhere particularly good, and yes, the cost. At the Monoprix I can study the ingredients at leisure and pay with a credit card with the most basic communication exchange.
So far I have managed exactly one non-Monoprix meal, at 2 pm yesterday at a friendly and fresh sandwich shop on Blvd Montparnasse, a tuna salad bagette and a cup of pumpkin soup which I’m pretty sure contained chicken bouillion but I was so hungry and grateful for the friendly service that I didn’t care.
Today I was hoping to get to a nearby bistro (?) known for awesome cheese soufflees but was awake until nearly 5 (?) am and then slept much too late. Monoprix yogurt and stale baguette and nespresso and bottled juice of pamplemousse to the rescue!
But what joy: tonight is my first Swan Lake!
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Tonight was a Jiri Kylian program, at the Opera Garnier. The swans begin tomorrow!
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A video game L’il Bub magnet,
A couple of euros,
A book for the plane ride,
And the rest of his leftover european pocket money.
(Thanks, sweetie!)
So now I’m off to see the swans again… in Paris!
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the view from a room 