Shopping in Paris is not all its cracked up to be.
I cant find anything French, and a lot of stores seem closed all week or possibly all summer, I cant quite decide based on the notes on the door.
Extensive research tells me which big department stores to go to, and I have, but theres nothing interesting in them, unless you want something from the Gap or Nike.
Now I dont know what to do, tomorrow is Bastille day, I have bought nothing at all and presumably everything will be shut! Then tomorrow night I go back to London. I hope people expecting gifts enjoy what I can find for them in the train station.... EVERYONE PANIC!!
Heres my breakfast, photo only provided to show chocolate corn flakes. I eat my cereal with yoghurt, the french danone yogurt comes in glass jars and is how all yoghurt should be, very thick.
In the morning I walked to the latin quarter, this market is nearby one of the stations, it was mostly selling fake watches, fake handbags and rotten looking fruit. Although the tins you can see all contain fois gras.
This is the Michael Jackson store.
Around Rue de la fayette (I think) theres lots of little alley ways, but the actual stores in them (not the restaurants) all seem shut, for no idea how long.
This bike is better than any other bike you have ever seen. It will take you places without ever needing to pedal.
There was about 10 guys with tripods and light metres and fancy lense bags taking photos of this corner, so I stood in front of them and did the same. But I dont get whats special about it.
The new Peugot RCZ looks better than anything else they made for 20 years, most of their recent cars have carrying handles.
Heres my lunch, roast pork baugette and some kind of chocolate cake with apple on top. The cake was great, the paper it was on went completely clear.
I did the same photo in London, now you get the Paris version.
As I suggested I might, I decided to go back to little India for dinner. I deliberately chose the most plain looking of places and had a delicious dinner for 8 Euros.
The Indian waiter addressed me in french, to which I replied in French that I am sorry I cannot speak french, can you speak English? To which he offered a sigh of relief and told me he cant speak French either, and loves it when he has customers that are prepared to speak English.
The meal was very authentic, complete with the metal tray, the other customers were all Indian. The cool thing was they had sun music, Indian cable style MTV show on the tv. This show is hilarious because some of the dance moves the guys get up to are ridiculous. But also people from home SMS messages that appear live on screen, the best one was a guy telling his girlfriend they will get married soon and have 5 children all boys, as we planned!
Tomorrow is Bastille day, it will be a long day for me as I will be hanging around outside all day after I check out before I return to London in the evening. Apparently theres a flyover of about 100 military jets, that should be exciting.
Entree, I had onion bhaji, basically onion rings, but comes with 4 different chutney/pickle things to try with it
Lamb curry with various accompaniments. Very delicious actually. I also had dessert as it was included in the price, Galub Jamon. I feel very sick from overeating now.