The next day, Stacy, Zach and I went to the Marais, a historic district in Paris. It's full of art galleries and trendy spaces. We saw the amazing window display above, for example!
The three of us ate at a cozy, rustic little restaurant called
Robert et Louise. Inside it reminded me of a little kitchen, with a huge fireplace to cook the meat on. We enjoyed items fresh from the market.
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| Robert et Louise |
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| Our meal from Robert et Louise: steak, pickles and potatoes. |
Sites around the Marais. I think this was a historic hotel, but I'm not sure which one. :-/
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| I think this is Hotel d'Albret |
After lunch, we split up and Zach and I went to visit Place des Vosges, a planned city square built by Henry IV in 1605. We visited the home of author Victor Hugo on the square.
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| Place des Vosges |
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| cool lock |
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| Inside Victor Hugo's home |
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| Writer nerd freakout. This was Victor Hugo's actual DESK! and PEN! |
Next, Zach and I tried to visit the Rodin museum gardens and Les Invalides. We stopped for hot chocolate and a bathroom break, but we unfortunately missed visiting Les Invalides (it closed early that day) and the Rodin gardens were closed due to snow. Disappointed, we decided to try to visit Musee d'Orsay... except it stopped selling tickets MINUTES before we got there. I was using an outdated guidebook, so I didn't know. We were sad.
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| Outside of Les Invalides |
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| Outside of Les Invalides |
So we decided to walk along the Seine river to Rue de Seine on the historic Left Bank. We'd never been, but it's such a focal point for many important events, and it's the setting many of the books and movies I've experienced.
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| Seine at night |
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| Seine at night |
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| On the Seine |
We viewed the art and design galleries along the way to Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris' oldest church. We were able to go inside and look around!
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| Why hello, Voltaire |
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| Window shopping - that's some fresh cured meat. |
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| Saint-Germain-des-Pres |
We continued our walk on to Church of Saint-Sulpice, the church featured in Zach's favorite book
The Da Vinci Code. Very very cool.
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| Church of Saint-Sulpice |
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| Church of Saint-Sulpice |
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| Da Vinci fans, this is for YOU! |
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| Church of Saint-Sulpice |
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| Church of Saint-Sulpice |
We ended our walk at the Luxembourg Gardens, but of course it was closed because it was after dark. We met up with Jason and Stacy for our dinner reservations at
Au Petit Sud Ouest near Ecole Militaire and the Eiffel Tower. It was actually just a few minutes from the place we stayed at on our honeymoon! More about that in a minute...
At the restaurant, all they serve is duck. and sides. Lucky for us, we like duck! We had fois gras on toast--you toast your bread in the toaster on your table. I had a cassoulet (duck stew) and zach had duck confit.
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| fois gras |
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| duck confit |
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| duck cassoulet |
After dinner, we decided to be all sentimental and walk by the hotel where we stayed on our honeymoon,
Hotel de Londres Eiffel. In view of the Eiffel Tower, it's so romantic.
Stacy and Jason also got engaged on that trip so we were all being nostalgic standing in front of the hotel. Zach and I picked out which room was ours... and then realized a man was in the bathroom of that room... naked... I don't know why the windows were not covered up but it was really funny. And awkward.
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| womp womp |
Later, I had one more crepe with whip creme and speculoos (Biscoff/cookie dough spread here). OMG. Best dessert EVER.
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