Today was a bit of a relaxing day after yesterday’s marathon. Our marathon continued last night with an attempt to visit the popular Brasserie Georges. We fingered out the metro and the complex mapping to get to this establishment but found the hour plus wait to be seated a little over the top considering the already long day we had. It did look like a fun place, huge, band playing in the corner etc. but a combination of the wait and the feeling we were at a tour bus pack em in spot caused us to turn around and find something closer to home. BTW, we arrived at about 8:45pm, so a 10 pm, sit down probably meant a 10:30 dinner, we were just too tired for that. Found a great spot about 2 blocks from the hotel, serving mussels and fries, the specialty and your basic fish and chips. Very good, odd waiter, sorry no pics on that.
All said and done we were back at the hotel by midnight, lights out by about 1:30, so yeah a long day. This meant no commitments today for a bit of a lie in, didn’t get out of the room until 11 am. Our very loose target today was a local (half block away), food, vegetable, produce, meat and fish market on one side if the river and an incredible artisan market on the other side and Starbucks for a get going coffee and a bite. The artisan market was definitely the highlight as it extended some five blocks and had works that the annual market at our convention centre in Vancouver to hope to ever display, Circle Craft on steroids. Strolled some the old town before settling in for a nice street side setting crepe lunch. Yes, nice and relaxing. Back to the hotel by 4pm to start prepping for tomorrow’s departure and an afternoon siesta. Dinner is at 8:30 tonight with our group of 8 at a local restaurant in the old town. The Tire Bouchon proved to be a great choice for our final dinner, something for everyone, Brian even ventured into having some sorta veal head, he said it tasted a bit rich - no don’t ask what was in it please. With full meals and full bellies we cheered to our wonderful time together and we all look forward to traveling together at some point not to far in the future. Brian and Anna are heading off to Provence, Karen and Aaron are spending a few days in Geneva while the rest of us begin our trek home. We will be taking the train to Charles du Gaulle tomorrow for an overnight at a hotel there before catching a morning plane back to Vancouver.
Our day in pictures, hope you enjoy...
Morning market
Some kind of multi event race going on today, looked like a great community event.
Artisan market
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