Arrival in France...

We arrived today somewhat eventfully – while changing terminals at Heathrow, a fire alarm went off and we had to spend 30 minutes waiting in a corridor behind fire doors. Then, before taking off, there was some sort of... mentally unwell person on the plane who had to get off, and then they had to find her bags, which took rather a while and delayed us another 20 minutes or so. Still, the flight was fine.

Our apartment is nice, and possibly the tiniest ever (~225 sq.ft.), but less goofy than the rue de la huchette apt we stayed in in 1999.

For our first meal we shared a sandwich near the Panthéon. For dinner: Brasserie Balzar. Tony: crottin chaud en salade (in fact, sliced rounds of goat cheese, toasted on toast); brandade de morue (potato-cod whip) w/ more salade; tarte au citron (good, bruléed). Eric: steak tartare w/ salade; bowl of strawberries w/ crème fraîche & sugar. This was the restaurant where we went in 1999, where Eric had his first steak tartare & where I discovered it as well. (I didn't know at the time that it was his first, but I tasted it and was sort of hooked.)

So far so good...

Labels: france, journal

posted by Tony at 4:41 PM