We continued with our moving out tasks this morning, Deb doing more deep cleaning while I took another load of clothing over to the community center.
Afterward we took ourselves down to Bouillon Racine, it's another restaurant on our goodbye tour. It has a beautiful Art Nouveau interior and is one of the 4 or 5 surviving bouillons still active in Paris. They we originally created as working class restaurants where one could get a lunch consisting of a large bowl of soup (bouillon) studded with chunks of meat and bread at inexpensive prices. Of course it's not that way today anymore but the restaurant still serves really good food at reasonable prices in a period correct setting. For the starter I had a veloute (soup) of Jerusalem artichokes and mushrooms while Deb had a veloute of Chestnuts and smoked lardons. Then for the entree Deb had suckling pig with a pureed turnip mash while I had a French pot roast with a pureed carrot mash both very good. We shared a creme brulee which was light as a feather.
After lunch we spent the balance of the afternoon sitting in the sun at the Luxembourg Gardens. I was amazed at how many people were out in the park today as well. Evidently we're not the only ones that want to soak up a little sunshine. Lots of tourists, but also lots of retired people. Many out with what must have been their grandchildren, who were intent on running off all that
young energy and then feasting on goodies provided by grandmama and grandpapa. None of the little boats out on the pond but that didn't seem to bother anybody whatsoever. It was nice to sit in the sunshine and watch all the people enjoying themselves. I couldn't help but think, "Ah to be in Paris again when I was young", and I wonder if there were others thinking similar thoughts, but there was a pretty cool wind that finally won out. So we walked down St. Michel to the Seine where we could catch our bus back to the apartment. Another beautiful day, more like a vacation than before.
Afterward we took ourselves down to Bouillon Racine, it's another restaurant on our goodbye tour. It has a beautiful Art Nouveau interior and is one of the 4 or 5 surviving bouillons still active in Paris. They we originally created as working class restaurants where one could get a lunch consisting of a large bowl of soup (bouillon) studded with chunks of meat and bread at inexpensive prices. Of course it's not that way today anymore but the restaurant still serves really good food at reasonable prices in a period correct setting. For the starter I had a veloute (soup) of Jerusalem artichokes and mushrooms while Deb had a veloute of Chestnuts and smoked lardons. Then for the entree Deb had suckling pig with a pureed turnip mash while I had a French pot roast with a pureed carrot mash both very good. We shared a creme brulee which was light as a feather.
After lunch we spent the balance of the afternoon sitting in the sun at the Luxembourg Gardens. I was amazed at how many people were out in the park today as well. Evidently we're not the only ones that want to soak up a little sunshine. Lots of tourists, but also lots of retired people. Many out with what must have been their grandchildren, who were intent on running off all that
young energy and then feasting on goodies provided by grandmama and grandpapa. None of the little boats out on the pond but that didn't seem to bother anybody whatsoever. It was nice to sit in the sunshine and watch all the people enjoying themselves. I couldn't help but think, "Ah to be in Paris again when I was young", and I wonder if there were others thinking similar thoughts, but there was a pretty cool wind that finally won out. So we walked down St. Michel to the Seine where we could catch our bus back to the apartment. Another beautiful day, more like a vacation than before.
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