A San Francisco sort of foggy day 3-20-15

Well today it was supposed to be sunny and warm, and it was if you live in San Francisco!  Overcast and grey, we had a total eclipse of the sun up north with partials all over Northern Europe, of course had a total eclipse of the sky.  

We did a large marketing run this morning, we found several critical magasins which in their absence up to now had us worrying.  We found a Fromagerie(cheese), a Poissonnerie (fish), and a Boucherrie (meat) all within spitting distance of our primary vegetable vendor.  A bonus was finding a small shop that stocks only produce and products from local or within Paris' greater metro area Bio (organic) growers and very tiny.

These furnished us with fun lunch, of cheese, sausage, olives, bread, and wine.  Afterward, Deb was checking all of the receipts and noticed that the fish monger had neglected to charge us for the fillet of Sabre and the Crevettes, so on our way back out we stopped at the shop to pay them.  They couldn't understand what we were trying to say, thinking perhaps that we had come to complain about not getting fish or being overcharged, etc. , but they were really surprised when they finally understood that we wanted to pay for the fish and shrimp.   They sifted through every piece of paper they had in the trash but couldn't find the original receipt, so we had them way another fillet and agreed we would pay for that.  They refused to charge us for the shrimp, for our honesty, but I think now we will have a very friendly fish monger in the future.  At dinner, the Sabre fillets were delicious, with fresh young green beans, potatoes and a lovely Pouilly Fume.

After squaring up with the fish monger, we decided to take a walk on Rue Mouffetard a vaunted street good for strolling with many small markets.  To get there we wanted to take the Metro line 7 which literally goes within 2 blocks, so we walked over to Rue de Flandres (across the canal) perhaps a 10 minute walk.  As we got to the metro stop I realized that my monthly Navigo pass was in my other jacket so had to buy another ticket to ride.  During the ride down I realized that I left the Paris map on the table, crap!  I got it out specifically to be able to navigate. Not the end of the world as we had an enjoyable paseo up and down rue Mouffetard and sat outside with a beer at the Place de Contrescarpe to watch the world go by.   I fell in love with this little place because it really show how Paris was stitched together from a host of small villages in close proximity.  


A pleasant trip home on the metro, again biting into my beer funds, had us enjoying the aforementioned dinner of Sabre fish.  This was the canal at evening on the way home.