Friday May 26... Up early ate oatmeal, fruit and hot Capachinio (instant) and headed for bus stop. Decided to go to Fraganord Perfume Museum near Opera House. I took photos of displays and entrance and then bought some of the wonderful scented soaps I love them so much! They smell so wonderful one is cherry and the other was honeysuckle. I bought 3 sun soaps that are just wonderful smelling! They make great gifts! I have bought the perfume before but the fragrance my daughter wanted is no longer made. ( We had bought it in Grasse.)
I walked back over to Galleries LaFayette looked at the sewing items and the canvas for needlepoint, baby bib (counted cross stitch), and other items for craft making. Going to search out all those items at BHV and Bon Marche and get the best ones for me! It looks like they no longer carry many canvases! So this trip I will have to make sure I stock up as they are much cheaper here in France than the internet or in the USA!
Then I went up the escalator to the next floor to see more items I was interested in. I got 1/3 of the way up and a young boy got his foot/shoe caught under the escalator top stair and people and his father were falling over the top of him and screaming! I ran back down the escalator and yelled at the English speaking clerk to stop the machine! She came over and open it and pushed the button! It seemed to take forever! It was all very terrible! The firemen came to help the young boy! There was no other way to get up to the next floor because the elevators were being re-done! So everyone had to go to the other end of the building to finally go up stairs !
I did see the young man and his father later and other than being upset he was OK. The stores were really crowded with many people on the 4 day hoilday. There were many tourists from Holland and Denmark. ( I really had not seen very many Americans so far.)
Took the bus to within a block of Brentanos English Book Store! It is the only place now that I could get the variety of Michelin Green Guide Books that I needed! They were new editions of two guides: Dordogne Berry Limousin and the other Languedoc Roussillon Tarn Gorges. They cost 15.40 Euros each much cheaper than what I pay in USA for them. (They are going to help me with more trip planning.) I find them to be the best of all guides! Have my evening reading all lined up!
I took the bus for some above ground site seeing and saw the huge line up for the Louvre so decided this 4 day weekend was not the time to go there or any other museum!
Went to Gilbert ( Book store) and looked at some great children%26#39;s books and cook books! Bought several to take home. Beginning French books for ypoung children! Good prices there.
A very nice man there directed me to the camping stores in the 5 th to buy Gaz for our camp stove ( picnic lunches and some dinners) for when we travel down south of France.( Hubby has it in his suitcase at home.) Found the small size for 1.40 and the large one for 5.80 Euros bought the big one! Good price! Walked around to four different Camping stores all with same name but each sold different items. All within blocks of each other in the 5 th Er!
Also stopped into several hotels to look them over and get pricing. None were as nice or had large enough rooms etc. as I would have wanted to stay in.
I had walked past a Thai place that was 7.5 for dinner but do you think I could find it again! No! I went to a place called Le Bistro 30
( Phread-- it had those little labels recommending it on the window.) They had a 10 Euro 3 course menu. I thought I would give it a try. My first course was French Onion Soup with lots of melted cheese and crusty bread. The soup bowl was fine but the serving plate under it had cracks and huge chips. I did not like that but it was not on the soup bowl so I did nothing. The main course I chose was the creamy mushroom gravy topped turkey breast slices with a nice side salad on the plate. For desert I chose cheese (I have diabetes so sweets are not on my list). I had a very nice slice of wonderful goat cheese and a most creamy runny Brie cheese that was so great I ate every bit of it! I sat looking out my front window seated table and almost fell asleep again! Talk about doing a lot and still fighting jet lag! I paid and gave an extra euros for a tip. I went back to my roomvia the bus
( 6:15 pm) and I thought I would take a short nap and then go to the shopping mall at Place d%26#39;Italie! Wrong!! I awoke at 10:05 pm. So I just went to sleep!
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I went out for a few hours, and when I came back I found this continuation. What a nice surprise, and what an enjoyable report!
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Hi,
Nice trip reports which I enjoy reading. Thank you and enjoy your stay.
Bea
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Love the trip report, is more comming
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Keep %26#39;em coming!! great!
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As long as they are of interest I%26#39;ll keep posting.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments! I did as always have a most wonderful time.
I have several people to thank on this forum for all the wonderful trip advice!
It made my trip even much more memorable and heartwarming for me!
Thank you all!
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Hi Discover, another fabulous vicariously lived day. Your husband packed a camping stove in his luggage? I really love the image. Here am I trying to cram in all the unnecessary clothes and other stuff I never use while I am away and he had room for a stove!
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Faux: the camp stove is very small it just screws onto the GAZ tank! We use it for back packing. We bought it at REI and one time we had to get another at BHV for twice the price! Hubby took it out and forgot to put it back in before he left! Still it saved a lot of money and we had the opportunity to eat local foods cooked by ourselves! Such fun! We use it when we are on the road driving at the rest stops.
It is the frying pan and the pot that take up so much room! Of course those are in my luggage along with the can opener and the bread knife, two plastic plates etc.!
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Hi Discover
For such a long trip as you took and then with your husband, those extras are so sensible. However, for those people who (before the recent restrictions on carry ons) bragged about only travelling with a single small bag, it is like carrying everything including the kitchen sink. I envy you the wonderful trip with so much time to enjoy all the places you wanted to see.
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