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Published: August 6th 2007
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Nothing Towers over Football!
Boys play Football oblivious to the worlds most famous Tourist destination. PARIS - 28th April 2007 (Saturday 25º Sunny)
Did I mention that this April in Paris has been the hottest ever recorded (in 375 years of keeping records)? Yes, instead of the temperature being 13 or 15 degrees it has been 25 to 28 everyday for a month - we have been blessed with the weather once again.
Today we avoid Madam Lash at Breakfast and skip out into the beautiful Paris sunshine. We walk to Place d’Italie and jump on the Metro to Bir-Hakeim. This Metro station is a short walk to the Eiffel Tower. Yes, today we are being tourists.
On the walk we stop and watch some boys playing soccer on a vacant lot. It is a strange feeling watching the boys play as my eyes are continuously drawn to Monsieur Eiffel’s Monument that towers over their playing field. The Tower is one of those landmarks that has the rare ability to impress both from a distance and at point blank range.
We walk away from the Tower and find a small park that has some nice glimpses of the Tower through trees and dappled shade. We sit for a while and spot a
typical Frenchman relaxing on a bench, he is reading Le Figaro and his beret is perched at just the just the right angle. Deb and I smile at each other as we relish the ‘Frenchness’ of the moment and move off rapidly together as he takes a piss into the hedge with scant regard for modesty or onlookers & romantics such as us.
We jump the Metro at Trocadero and disembark at Chaussée d'Antin — La Fayette. We are visiting Galleries La Fayette, which is the largest Magazine (i.e. Department Store) in Paris. It is a bit ho hum and I do think Myers in Pitt St mall could show them a thing or two. Deb buys a T-shirt for the equivalent of three years salary.
Not sure what come over me (possibly hunger) when I said to Deb let’s have lunch the Cafeteria! I thought that the most luxurious Department Store in Paris would of course contain the most luxurious Cafeteria in Paris.
Remember my scale of wrongness from Chapter 1? Well here was another mistake in the making on the top end of the scale. The Cafeteria certainly looked the goods. It was light and
The Eiffel Tower
This is not your typical Tower photo. It is taken in a nearby side street and gives the Tower a new perspective. airy and our table even had a view to the Eiffel Tower but the food, oh the food. All Cafeterias in the world must process their food through the Blandiser®. The Blandiser® removes any hint of flavour, it neutralises nutrients and ensures the food is all at the same tasteless levels we would expect from a Cafeteria. We ate, we got indigestion and we left.
We make our way back to the Hotel and upon arrival have a chat to one of the night Managers. He suggests a nice Moroccan restaurant for dinner and says that he will be there for a while tonight so we should drop in. And so we do. The meal of Chicken Cous Cous and a Lamb Tangine accompanied by a Moroccan Rose (Ksar Bahia 2005) est magnifique.
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le_Pierre
Pierre Pierrestofferson
paris!
your travel diary is totally cool, I wish I had cool adventures like you man.