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Post by janetnj on Feb 7, 2013 17:26:14 GMT -5
Have a great trip! You're leaving just in time. Forecast is calling for a blizzard starting tomorrow in NY up through New England.
Happygoin - I think you're in Boston. Stay safe! Hopefully you'll make a sensational French meal while you're snowed in.
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Post by framboiseetrose on Feb 7, 2013 19:18:13 GMT -5
Geordy, Have a great trip! We were following the weather and it seems that Paris and San Francisco are roughly the same temperature today. Have fun and see if you can try Semilla on rue de Seine and Terroir Parisian (by 3-Michelin star Yannick Alleno of Meurice fame) at 20 rue Saint Victor near rue Monge (not too far from Annette's place). Enjoy your Valentine trip........ bisous, Lilia
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Post by mez on Feb 9, 2013 9:29:37 GMT -5
I'm a bit late to the party, but I hope you had a safe trip, Geordy.
I am sure it didn't feel like it for you but this trip has come around quite quickly.
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Post by geordy on Feb 18, 2013 16:29:30 GMT -5
Can't believe I'm back! Ironically V-Day was not the best day of the trip...weather was wicked.cold, windy, pelting at times and just raining at others..and I was not well..but made the best of it... Didn't get to Semilla or Terrior Parisien but walked by both...TP looks a bit cold..we were looking for it and walked right by...it's on the side of a big office bldg but perhaps at night with mood lighting...Funny I should think that...been in similiar type restaurants but they were higher end...guess I had a different notion in my head for TP Been to Cafe Victor before both for PD and nightcaps...once a late light meal after a big lunch day..but not this trip..pleasant old style cafe Fish is closed for renovations... Enjoying President's Day to decompress...as I said at the top of the thread early flight out of Paris yesterday..we had a 5 Am wakeup call and 5:45 taxi to CDG so I was kind of in a fugue state.... Flight going was delayed 2 and a half hours due to "mechanical" thing...reassuring... and was packed as I guess anyone who could switched a friday flight to thurs.due to the impending storm. I passed the time talking to someone who had done that. He was meeting his S/O who was coming in from Turkey. Delay meant though that once I finally got there room was ready and S/O there! Will report more later...still foggy.
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Post by jo on Feb 18, 2013 17:30:33 GMT -5
Welcome back! Can't believe you are back either! Why is it our long awaited vacations go by so quickly and the rest of our lives drag slowly by, lol.
Glad you made it back safe and sound ~ those winter flights delays suck (right Dawn?).
Can't wait for more once the jetlag's gone.
Jo
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Post by janetnj on Feb 18, 2013 18:02:14 GMT -5
Welcome back! The time seemed to pass so quickly. I was thinking about you that Thursday night. The weather people were really hyping the storm and I was glad you were leaving just before it hit.
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Post by PariS on Feb 18, 2013 21:06:55 GMT -5
Welcome home--that did go fast! Looking forward to hearing what you did and where you ate
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Post by Shoesy on Feb 18, 2013 23:19:10 GMT -5
Looking forward to the continuation, Geordy.
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Post by mez on Feb 19, 2013 4:44:10 GMT -5
Welcome home!
Looking forward to hearing more about your trip.
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Post by geordy on Feb 19, 2013 9:41:20 GMT -5
Welcome back! Can't believe you are back either! Why is it our long awaited vacations go by so quickly and the rest of our lives drag slowly by, lol. Glad you made it back safe and sound ~ those winter flights delays suck (right Dawn?). Can't wait for more once the jetlag's gone. Jo Well jo, I think it has to do with that pesky detail of not being fabulously, independently wealthly and not able to buy a ticket at he drop of a hat and fly off! ;D We poor souls who must plan around work, vac time, other responsibilities, and search for the best fares/rates...book far ahead, start planning and then poof....it is like a dream...a great one but gone in a flash! But I will tell you of my experiences and that will help bring them back to life! But.....my welcome home consisted of a dead mouse and last night my kitchen sink gurling and backing up...I was in the other room!...and now apparently it is the whole B line of my bldg...did i just dream it? ?? was I really in Paris?
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Post by Shoesy on Feb 19, 2013 15:52:53 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a dead mouse is better than a live one.
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Post by geordy on Feb 19, 2013 16:13:46 GMT -5
True...but it does not preclude the appearance of a live one! There is rarely one mouse.trust me since they started 2nd Ave subway construction yrs ago I have become an expert! Either way...not good...luckily it did not appear ti have expired the day I left!
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Post by janetnj on Feb 19, 2013 18:28:07 GMT -5
In my experience they fancy peanut butter over cheese. I wonder if they like speculoos?
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Post by geordy on Feb 19, 2013 20:02:18 GMT -5
In my experience they fancy peanut butter over cheese. I wonder if they like speculoos? Mine too! I'm thinking the cheese thing started back when humans first decided they no longer wanted the critters in their dwellings, and other than bread and grains, cheese was the other food stuff they noticed them nibbling on (didn't have pb then ) Many moons ago I had German foil wrapped chocolate ornaments on my Xmas tree...i heard some noise in the tree but assumed as it was a real one it was just the branches drooping and all ornaments adjusting. Then after Xmas noticed some of ornaments half eaten! So since they obviously liked chocolat , BF at the time baited traps with half of one of those miniature foil wrapped Santa Clauses! Seemed a bit macabre but effective... I'm sure specaloos would work too!
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Post by mez on Feb 20, 2013 14:40:46 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a dead mouse is better than a live one. True, Shoesy, but I'd rather do without all the same. I'll stick with the spiders we have here instead. At least I know I can spray it from a distance and not have to touch it.
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Post by geordy on Feb 21, 2013 8:49:21 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thin :ok a dead mouse is better than a live one. True, Shoesy, but I'd rather do without all the same. I'll stick with the spiders we have here instead. At least I know I can spray it from a distance and not have to touch it. No mice there? I'm packing ...see you in a few days! ;D Oh but wait.. don't you have lots of creepy crawlers that can actually kill you there? Sink is fixed...came home to 3 plumbers yesterday..now the continuing clean up! I rarely see bugs in Paris...anyone see them in apts?
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Post by PariS on Feb 21, 2013 10:39:42 GMT -5
"I rarely see bugs in Paris...anyone see them in apts? No Geordy, I never have! Never in a hotel, rented apartment, or our place--even with the windows left open. Not a spider, a fly, nothing. I wonder why that is?
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Post by sunshine817 on Feb 21, 2013 17:28:55 GMT -5
that's because they're all out here in the countryside.
You could go to bed healthy and wake up anemic out here -- there are no window screens, and you have to open the house at night so it stays cool during the day....so skeeter bites and flies buzzing around the house are normal.
I have daddy-long-legs in the basement, and I let them build webs in the corners in the summer because it helps keep the flying insect population down.
(yes, it drives me buggy, so to speak)
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Post by PariS on Feb 22, 2013 1:28:10 GMT -5
Yikes
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Post by geordy on Mar 2, 2013 10:22:34 GMT -5
Valentine's Day You may have been wondering(or not! why I mentioned the man knocking on the door with the floor cleaning machine in one of these threads...an important clue as to the V day events! When we returned to hotel the afternoon the day before...open room door and indeed florrs had been done.leaving behing a smack me in the face floral cleaning solution odor! Started stuffing up and coughing. Opened half french doors windows but so cold and windy.. Seemed to abate as odors do when you are immersed in them, went to dinner, came back, to bed Woke early all stuffy, took something, an hour later got up again, and...all Hell broke loose! Sparring the gories..a couple of Pepto tabs and immodiums later we headed out after 11. Pelting freezing rain...went to Institute de arabe monde for !001 Arabian Nights exh....because it sounded fairly romantic for V-Day, it was close, and Museums have bathrooms! Very expansive exh..most things translated into English and arabic. I didn't know that the original 1001 Nights did not include Alladin, Ali Baba, or Simbad...those tales were added with the French translation, old tales supplied by the translator's Persian collaborator. Those are what I recall most from childhood but I guess the Scheherazade story, cuckolded husband decides to marry a new maiden every night and kill her next day, is not exactly PC for children! Rain even worse as we leave...and if you've been there you know it is close to river and wide open spaces....WET! Stop at Cafe Metro to assess my situation .managed less than half of a viande froide baguette sandwich so back to hotel and bed. Get up in time to get gussied (!) for Ballet at Garnier. S/O insisting we don't have to go but as this is one of my fav things...I put a heavy duty zipped plastic bag in evening bag and we head to Opera. Ballet Japanese themed Kaguyahime..actually quite good as far as I can recall.a bit out of it. I did manage a coupe of Champ (thought bubbles might help! )and hummed a bit of Phantom whilst surveying the scene from the staircases!! Back to bed...alas no champ, caviar, oysters afterwards :(and a better day tomorrow.
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