Originally posted to Posterous on 28 April 2011
The last couple of days have been hectic. Yesterday we went to an open air market and bought scarves to look more Parisian. The food was gorgeous-looking - great big bunches of radishes, enormous stalks of white asparagus, fragrant strawberries and plump raspberries. Next to the market were small shops selling cheese, pate, smallgoods, fresh meat, fish and, of course, bread. Afterwards, we went to a department store - Le Bon Marche - whose food hall was simply incredible. More raspberries and asparagus, smoked salmon from Scotland, Ireland and the Baltic, caviar, foie gras, and of course, bread.
Today we ventured out onto the buses to get to Pere Lachaise cemetery. This was less successful - the buses were perfectly fine, but the cemetery was very difficult to navigate, with lots of cobblestones and steps. We found Oscar Wilde's tomb though, but gave up on trying to get to Edith Piaf unfortunately - it was simply too steep and tricky. We returned to our hotel in the afternoon for a trip to the laundromat - always a feature of our travels. I had scoped out a laundromat via Google Maps Street View from Australia in le Marais near a renowned kosher falafel joint (see review in New York Times at http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/travel/31bite.html). So we had the tastiest, crunchy, spicy falafel whilst waiting for our clothes to go through a washing machine and drier. Yummy! And now clean.
Some new photos have been posted to http://gallery.me.com/honningbi67.