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Just another day in Paris, France

29 April 2011 Coffee
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The last time we stayed in Paris was in a top-floor apartment on boulevard St-Germain overlooking the rooftops and the grandiose Notre Dame, a beautiful area saturated with chocolatiers, bakeries and bistro’s in its web of narrow cobbled alleys. This time it was on the other side of the Seine in the thick of the Marais/Pletzl district, an area [...]

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Chestnut + sweet potato soup

27 April 2011 French
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This transition period between the seasons is a little erratic to say the least. One day it’s warm and sunny, the next it’s like the middle of winter. It’s either seafood and salad or steamy soup. The other weekend we ducked out to Danks Street to check out a mixer tap and a gas cooktop, [...]

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Le Gai Moulin – Paris, France

15 April 2011 France
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Arriving in Paris should have been fairly straight forward. The train pulled into Gare du Nord on schedule and by the time we got the Metro down to Marais it was verging on dusk and a heavy-looking sky turned into light rain. The apartment we booked many months prior was very much in the heart of [...]

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Pickwick’s – Enmore

1 April 2011 Breakfast/Brunch
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My visit to Pickwick’s in Enmore the other month had me hankering for a revisit to try out the breakfast offerings and possibly break this mundane tradition of staying at home on weekend mornings with Vegemite toast. Who knows, with what has been happening on the homefront of late, I just may be eating out at every [...]

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Le Marché de Enfants Rouges – Paris, France

16 March 2011 France
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Zipping through the beautiful countryside at about 300km/hr from our last port-of-call, Béziers, the train headed up to Paris where we’d spend the last days of our trip living like locals in a Marais apartment. What’s a French holiday without a visit to Paris? This was my third visit to Frances capital and it was also [...]

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Canal du Midi part 3 – Le Somail to Béziers, France

15 February 2011 Canal du Midi
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It was before sunset that we slowly glided down the canal into Le Somail. The sun was just about to drop below the rolling hills, casting long shadows over the vineyards and illuminating the old stone buildings either side of the canal.  This was once a bustling 17th century port and staging post where passengers and crew [...]

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Pickwick’s – Enmore

11 February 2011 Enmore
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When you think of Enmore Road you think cheap and cheerful – Turkish, Indian, Thai and Italian eateries all interspersed with the odd pub, the Enmore Theatre, hair dressers, grocers and even a brothel. It’s not one of this citys prettiest streets and to be honest, it’s kind of good that it isn’t. I’ve mentioned before [...]

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Canal du Midi part 2 – Trèbes to Ventenac, France

31 January 2011 Canal du Midi
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The first few days on the canal felt a little unorganised and having expectations of a string of quaint little restaurants and cafes at our disposal along its tree-lined banks, we soon learned that villages and produce markets were not always open and the locks pretty-much control your daily activities. The system of locks along the Canal [...]

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