Diane's Vintage Zest!: Paris

Here is Part 2 of Paris!

Day 3 (Monday, 4/8)

Sights: Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Pere-Lachaise, Moulin Rouge, Les Invalides / Napoleon's Tomb, Galleries Lafayette
Eats: Du Pain des Idees, Pierre Hermé, L'As du Fallafel, Chez Marianne

Within walking distance of our flat was an amazing bakery that my friend found, called Du Pain des Idees. She was super excited about it, so we finally hit it up for breakfast.

Ohmygosh, the aroma as soon as we stepped in the door was amazing!

It was a bit late in the morning, but it was still ridiculously busy with locals. They were still refilling the baskets and trays with pastries fresh from the oven.

My choice was an Escargot Aux Cassis Fraise, which also had cream cheese. This put Laduree's to shame, and it was just sooo delicious! Perfectly flaky towards the outside, and just a little custardy and soft in the center. Mmm...

My friend got a Chocolatine, basically a Pain au Chocolat, and a wonderful bread with coriander seeds.

Then, we went out for the day, just a bit later than usual. We could have rushed through the day, but I did stop to appreciate this pretty part of the Abbesses Metro station.

It's decorated with paintings of different sights in Montmartre.

I'm not sure why my "scheduled" posts haven't been posting them automatically, so here is my post a bit late!

Day 1 (Saturday, 4/6)

Sights: Gare du Nord, Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Élysées at night
Eats: La Creperie des Champs Élysées Les Ecuries

We got to Paris in the afternoon, and turned around to see this amazing building: Gare du Nord!

I know that we have train stations in the U.S., but this puts them to shame! Then, we dragged our suitcases to our flat. The bedroom/living room/dining room was a decent size, but the shower was teeny tiny! Anyways, we settled in and found macarons right around the corner! But, it might surprise you to find out that they were from McDonald's! I wouldn't normally eat at McDonald's overseas, but this was too funny to pass up!

It was late when we decided to head out, but by then we had a semi-plan to see the sights at night. I liked the idea of a warm metro, but the bus seemed to get us there closer. We were waiting in the windy cold for our transfer near a church on the left bank, when we realized that the bus line we were waiting for was out of service until July! Ugh!

Anyways, I rerouted us and we finally reached the Arc du Triomphe about 1.5 hours later, just in time for the night lights on the Arc de Triomphe!

Little Miss is peeking out from the lamp post Beatles-style, even though she isn't in London anymore. :)

We strolled down the Champs-Élysées looking for dinner and found tons of expensive places to eat. Instead, we decided to go for a creperie (still on the high end of prices), but we knocked off two things on our list: crepes (one with mushrooms and one with crab)...