Shoes Before Breakfast

No, it's not Bec's personal priority scheme! Let us explain. To celebrate our FIVE YEAR(!) anniversary, in mid-January we headed to one of our very favourite places, Paris. In an extremely pleasant departure from the usual air-travel shambles, we took the Eurostar from the newly-refurbished London St. Pancras direct to the Gare du Nord in just 2-and-a-bit hours. Très bon!

We stayed in a new part of town for us, Saint-Germain, and we liked it a lot. It's definitely a hotspot for shopping and fashion, as we discovered on the Saturday morning on our way to getting some breakfast. In the short time it took Johnny to find and use an ATM, Bec had located a shoe shop and was knee-deep in crazy-January-sale-priced footwear. John had to admit it was actually pretty good, with ladies' leather shoes starting at less than 10 Euro! Incroyable! And so it was that we bought shoes before breakfast. Zut Alors!

We finished up at Les Grands Magasins, taking in the beautiful dome of the Galeries Lafayette:



Later that day we took a dinner cruise down the Seine, recreating a fantastic experience we had had over four years earlier, just a couple of youngsters exploring Europe. Look at us now, slowing down a bit now we're into our twilight years, bien sûr, but still having fun... (and no less enamoured with a certain metal tower!)


Sunday saw us heading to the Musée d'Orsay, with its fantastic collection housed in an equally spectacular building, a former palace and railway station. Magnifique!


We still haven't had enough of Paris (or indeed, its shoes) - so we're booked in to catch up with our friend Bron when she hits the City of Lights in May. À bientôt!