Fun filled weekend! Saturday was our "get everything done day" and we left the hotel shortly before 9 am....six hours later we'd been to three banks, the third of which handled new clients and opened new accounts on Saturdays and didn't care where Kris's first paycheck was from, so they got our business! We got an account with debit cards, we got local sim cards for our phones so we have service and WiFi for maps and such. Next, we headed off to Porte d'Vincennes and found a case for one of Kris's hard drives, wandered into a cave in search of a good bottle of tequila and found one. Asked and was recommended a nice bottle of red for just shy of ten euros, so bottles in pack, we finally settled in to a very late lunch, but well worth the wait. We both had what was basically a very large slab of bacon with crispy skin on and a little meat sandwiched around pure fat, fries on the side...to die for. Found fresh limes for our tequila on the way home. The tequila was quite inspired by our first visit to the Mexican place near our hotel....pre-mixed margaritas. Not at all what we were hoping for, so we decided to grab the ingredients and do our own. We mixed up a first round yesterday after bike rides but decided we needed simple syrup or something to blend the lime and ended up with Orange Fanta. Not quite orange liqueur but an improvement! Took everything home after a stop for coffee at a usual cafe and then melted onto the couch and had some late snacks while perusing housing choices.
Sunday we slept in....Poor Chloe was so patient waiting for anyone to get up to take her outside and once we got up we took her on a big walk around the Sunday marche (farmer's market), found some nice cheese and bread to go with our bottle of red, stopped at a cafe for coffees and lunch and met the neighboring table who have been transplants in Paris for about five years now. Nice to catch up with someone in English for a minute! While wandering about, we got to see what Kris calls the French pastime....Sunday mornings, I think the first of the month, everyone brings stuff out from their apartments, offices, houses, wherever, if they don't want it, they toss it in neat piles on the street corner or around various benches on the sidewalks. Books, area rugs, clothes, furniture....all unwanted out on the street. And people walking by go through it all and grab the things that they want and the rest of it is left for the trash trucks to pick up, and they do. This morning it was all gone like it had never been there! Back at the hotel we napped out for awhile and then rallied to get the bikes out and go for a ride! We were so focused on making sure the bikes were ready to ride that we forgot our bread, wine and cheese. Tucked Chloe into her basket and had a nice hour and half ride through the Boit (forest) behind the Chateau d'Vincennes.
Cheers!
Allie H.
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