Bonjour!

We arrived in Paris from London on the 4th of May and made our way to our hotel, Residence du Palais on 78 rue d'Assas in the 6th arrondissement.  The hotel is on the most charming street, full of trees and historic looking buildings, little boutiques and cute patisseries.  It is also across the street from Jardin du Luxembourg and as mentioned in my previous post, only 8 minutes from Pierre Herme.  For 66 euros a night for a double room with shower you really can't go wrong.  Well, except our room was on the 4th floor and the building has no elevator.  As an added bonus, the owner was extremely friendly and spoke English.

As it doesn't get dark until 9.30-10pm, we made the most of the evening and explored the town.  We got lost a couple times making our way through Montepasso and St. Germain but Ron's Native American skills kicked in and we found our way again.  While meandering through the streets, we came across a crepe stand and we ate our first crepe in Paris.  Nutella and banana, so good!

Passing by a cheese shop on our way home, Cat just had to stop and sample the French cheese.  We walked out with a brie like cheese and a blue.  There are about four patisseries near our hotel so we picked up a baguette to go with the cheese.  The bottle of red paired well with dinner of bread and cheese.  But not just any bread and cheese... French baguette and fromage.  The baguette had an amazingly thin crispy shell, with large holes and a sweet tang.  The blue was the best we've ever had.  Ron couldn't stop eating it, he was licking the swiss army knife, it was that good.