Showing posts with label Nom de la Rose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nom de la Rose. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Home in Paris

What do YOU do your 1st day in Paris? It could be anywhere you love to visit really...Do you rent a Velib and go cruising around town?
What makes you feel immediatement at home in a place you've visited before? A stop at your favorite patisserie per chance, like SECCO? Do you plan on cooking a meal (you rented an apartment) and go off to your favorite marche? Buy a few fleurs for your room, say at La Nom de la Rose, even if you're staying in a hotel..? GO SHOE SHOPPING! Or browse in a wine shop..?
Do you get all sportive and need to take a jog in the Luxembourg Jardin to feel homie?
How about buying French magazines/journals at a presse kiosk even though your French is rather rusty or non-existent?
Then you head for your favorite cafe where they even remember you from the last time, like Le Select...
Must-haves = box of macarons!
Some French chocolate!
Bread or those cookies by Poilane bien sur.
A quickie run into a department store to catch up on the latest tendances/trends like Le Bon Marche?
Do you take a Metro or a mini tour on a Paris bus like the No.95 that goes everywhere you want to go..?
Do you stand in the rue studying the ardoise/menus pretending you're going to eat there..?
Did you book a table ahead at your favorite resto?

Is visiting the Eiffel Tower an absolute must-see for you first day?
Do you keep an eye out for something special to bring home to remember your trip?
My 1st day in Paris, I pretend it's my last day so I can remember to appreciate every single nano second. But usually I forget. I get caught up in the visual buffet and forget to remember until it is The Last Day...
Do tell me what YOU do 1st day in Paris.