Since today is Peter’s birthday, he picked a spicy little place to go celebrate it over dinner.
If you have not already guessed, you can find the answer below.
The margaritas were flowing generously and he was very happy.
It was a great time had by all!
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Our first scheduled event is Gymnastics.
Despite the continuing rain, we were all very excited to go see what this was all about.
And it was an experience. The crowd was energetic and the performers athletes were some of the best in the world.
Well worth it!
Let the games begin! Read More »
Little did we know how lucky we were.
Due to the cost, we originally decided not to get tickets to the opening ceremony.
We opted for a home-cooked dinner of chicken piccata and watching it on TV.
Since the opening took place on the Seine river, all the performances were spread out along the water and some even through the city. Having one expensive seat in the pouring rain would have shown you the boats coming by and none of the rest.
The show on TV was also a great experience. Four hours from start to finish, and not a single ad break. We saw every moment. (After a while we even started a game of which scenes will be cut out for ad breaks when shown in the US. )
And now we have to go find that balloon!
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Two of us went on a lunch date while the rest went exploring.
Kenn picked this tiny but very environmentally conscious restaurant. It is woman owned and operated, and the menu is very seasonal and plant forward.
Just one example: one of the wine pairings was from a small producer that makes organic mead champagne in the process of protecting a rare endangered bee species. She does not even use smoke with the bees.
It was truly a memorable experience.
https://www.datil-restaurant.fr/en-us
We’re delighted to have you with us today.
We are Manon, Laurène, Céline, Lisa, Héloise, Juliette, Adèle, Charis, Jordan, Valentine, Frederikke, Louis, Louise and Manon.
We share a relentless passion for the good and the beautiful as well as a full-blown taste for happiness. Ours and yours.
Our producers are the unsung heroes of our team. Yet, we know their faces, their personalities, their boundaryless commitment. Because they tell us about the to meet them, you could listen to their voices in a remote corner of this place.
For us, a restaurant cannot function without sharing generosity and joy. We have created our project based on this very specific idea, whilst encompassing as much as we could the current human and environmental issues.
Welcome to Datil
We took a very early morning walk through the rain to a market Kenn wanted to see.
Marché des Enfants Rouges (meaning ‘market of the red children’) is the oldest food market in Paris, dating back to 1615.
https://www.cntraveler.com/shops/paris/marche-des-enfants-rouges
We got there a little too early and most stalls were not even open yet. Since we were ‘a little damp’ at this point, we decided to dry out in a small french cafe watching people in the rain.
After a second peek in the market we headed back.
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Paris is a very walkable city.
After the bakery experience we walked around Le Marais district in Paris, had some lunch, walked some more, learned about making (and mostly just tasting) artisanal chocolate and then attended a soirée we were invited to.
What a great day!
Since the games have not officially started yet, our morning excursion was an ‘interactive bakery experience’
We not only made by hand breads and baguettes as well as pastries, we also learned a lot of interesting and sometimes surprising facts.
Random facts like: all the bakeries’ profits are from sandwiches and pastries. It takes four days to make a baguette, and they sell them for around one euro each. (This specific bakery makes about 1,000 baguettes every day by hand.)
More fun facts about croissants. Did you know that a curved croissanteans it is made with margarine, and a straight one with butter? During war times there was no butter available so they used margarine. To identify that to the very discerning consumers, the bakers started curving the ends in like a ‘C’ shape.
We all enjoyed it very much and took enough bread home to last for all the days we are here.
Gare du Nord was not only very busy when we arrived, but the amount of armed security everywhere was insane.
It was a short, and very packed, metro ride down to our new home for the rest of the week. A charming place behind a very intimidating facade.
We settled in and them went shopping for the first ‘home-cooked’ meal in Paris.
