More Paris

Here are some more pictures from gorgeous Paris. The Eiffel Tower at night is spectacular. The statues are mainly from the french sculpture area in the Louvre which we liked the most. Ben is standing at the Place de la Concorde- we were there when Nicholas Sarkozy was elected new president of France. There were tonnes of supporters and everyone was very excited.

Food, Glorious Food

Despite not feeling well over the weekend it didn't stop us from enjoying the fabulous food in Paris.


In this restaurant in Les Halles, the Cafe Maitre Kanter, Ben had a fantastic seafood platter with some crazy winkles, sea snails and mini shrimp as well as crab and scampi. I had a three cheese Flammentarte (lots of melted cheese!).

Escargots!

Montmartre and The Sacre-Coeur

Here is a selection of the wonderful sights of Montmartre including the famous Sacre-coeur church.
We spent sunday morning here on a warm sunny day checking out the church, food, tourist shops, sex street and moulin rouge. We ate baguettes for lunch on the grass of the Sacre-Coeur and watched the African men harrassing all the tourists with their crappy plaited bracelets. We then walked down the road along the Sex strip and had a look at the famous (toulouse lautrec) Le Chat Noir Cafe and also the Moulin Rouge theatre. A great morning in the parisian sun.

Cheese Heaven

This is the fromagerie which we found within minutes of leaving our hotel. This was a brilliant shop with hundreds of varieties of cheeses that you will never see anywhere but france. The shop was brimming with brie de meux, camembert, washed rinds, blues, chevre and many variations as well as wine and dried meats.

We ended up getting a normandy Camembert which was tres stinky, a pappilon washed rind goat cheese and a slice of Maroilles, a famous washed rind from the calais/normandy region also tres stinky.

Perfection - French baguette, beautiful cheese, some beer and a few neurofen to wash it all down - bon appetite.

PS - Unfortunately in paris i had an ulcer the size of tasmania on the side of my tongue - slowing down the food intake and corinne had a stomach bug - not good in a food heaven like paris.

Paris!

Over the Bank holiday weekend (public holiday) we flew to Paris for two nights. We left sat morning and got into Paris around lunch time. This is our first trip overseas since we started work here.
We stayed in the 7th arrondissement, about 5 minutes walk from the Eiffel Tower.

We went for a bit of a walk and of course the first thing we found was a fromagerie (Cheese shop). The shop was mind blowing and corinne and i cried tears of happiness over the stinky selection (see next post). Over the weekend we visited a lot of the goodies like Eiffel tower, Champs elysees (main road in paris), Arc de Triomphe, Monmarte and the Sacre-coeur and the Louvre. We also walked through many nice parks and gardens like the Jardins des tuileries and ate lots of great tucker.

Arc de Triophe surrounded by one of the craziest roundabouts in the world.





This is me forcefully made to drape myself over a large breasted nude statue in the Jardins des Tuileries with the Louvre in the background. Corinne wanted me to do something else to the statue but of course, being a gentleman, I refused.