Up at a reasonable time despite going to sleep at 01:00, which was 21:00 Greenland time.
Had breakfast then walked to the airport and had to rearrange all our liquids into just 2 small zip lock bags, whereas everywhere else didn’t care how many you had or provided bigger bags. It seems that every airport has different rules – some need belts and shoes off, some only belts etc. Very annoying.
Landed in Paris (saw a Concorde), about to buy the train tickets but told to evacuate so had to stand on a train platform while something was investigated – I suspected an unattended bag but didn’t know for sure.
We had to wait for about an hour. Annoying but nothing could be done about it, lucky we were arriving and not leaving.
As soon as we were allowed back in, I rushed to the ticket machine and bought 4 tickets to Paris. I bought 2 extra by mistake so had to queue up at the ticket office for another 10 minutes to ask for a refund for 2, but she said no. Bugger. Since it was 20 Euro down the drain I did something extremely uncharacteristic and tried to sell them to someone in the now massive queue for the ticket machine and was pleasantly surprised that someone snapped them up.
Hopped on the crowded train into Paris, keeping a wary eye on the bags – one time in Paris some guy tried to pick my pocket on the metro – we stopped at a station and he asked me to move my bag, I took my hand out of my pocket whereupon he stuck his in. Luckily he didn’t get anything and I was about to fight him but he was very big and I’m a coward.
Got the metro to our hotel, one we’ve used before just down the road from the Moulin Rouge. The room was very small, but that’s normal here, and the location is very good – walking distance from Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur.
Watched the last set of the women’s French Open final to see Ashleigh Barty win, then went out for dinner to a restaurant down the road that we’d been to last time we were here. It took a bit of finding, it wasn’t where I thought it was but Song remembered.
I asked the waiter if he had frog’s legs, he said yes so I told him to hop to the kitchen and get me a burger. Ah, the old ones are the best.
Song had snails to start, I had fois gras. For main we had the same as 3 years ago – I had beef bourgignon, Song had sausage.
We also had a dessert, I had pear Helene, Song had the souffle. I also had a wine (it’s France after all).
I thought the food in Greenland was decent, but after eating the fois gras realised the food there was only adequate – this was a different level, so good. The beef Bourgignon superb, the poached pear in a chocolate sauce with vanilla ice cream fantastic.
Sitting in a good restaurant in Paris eating amazing food with a glass of wine, I can’t think of any thing better.
Went for a quick walk in a vain attempt to dispose of some calories, then back to the hotel.
