For our last few days in France, we booked a place near Disney Paris. While in Tokyo, we went to Disney Sea, but this was our first time in the original Disneyland. Z and I planned the day, and after arriving on the train, we split up and, respectively, went to rides Autopia and Big… Read More Disney Paris (by Z)
As we left Paris, we knew we’d be staying with our English hosts for a week and N came up with the idea of bringing them a present from Paris – some cheese of course! M & N went to a local fromagerie on our last night and discussed in depth with the staff which… Read More A cheese shaped hole in our hearts
We flew into Paris for six days of cheese, bread and sightseeing. It is a wonderful city, even with loads of other tourists about. We even managed to catch up with a Canadian friend who happened to be passing through – great timing! We had met her in South America in 2008 and N met… Read More Paris exploration
From the moment we arrived in Paris, we saw bakeries (boulangeries) everywhere. On almost every street, there’s a shop with pastries and bread to takeaway for breakfast, or a snack. Throughout our time in the city, these places became a go-to stock for reliably good (& quick) food, most notably bread to eat by itself… Read More Parisian Food (by Z)
Our Airbnb in Paris was outside the central area, in north eastern suburb of Romainville. We randomly heard about a twice weekly local market a short walk from our accommodation and left the kids to go and check it out. As you might imagine there was a lot of cheese and we had some trouble… Read More Local Market in Paris
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