Cafe de la Paix!

 Bear has  arrived in Paris safe and sound if a tad sleepless.

 He takes the scenic route into Paris on Roisseybus.

 Bear spots his first French woman, walking her small dog, wearing a red coat + possibly carrying a vrais o faux Hermes Birkin bag...Ah Paris.

 Place de la Opera is looking pretty gorgeous this morning!

 Bear, feeling his oats. He remembers his not-so-hot breakfast(extremement crummy) on Delta decides to have petit dejeuner at famed Cafe de la Paix. What the Hey!

 Bear looks inside. Who can resist?

 Lovely French script on the menu too...

 It's day 1 and Bear is feeling flush with fresh euros...

 This is some grand place!

 Tres grande indeed.

 Possibly a little too grand for Bear. He immediately dribbles his thick, unctious hot chocolate (certainly a contender to Angelina's).

 Fortunately other savvy breakfasters don't lift an eyebrow at Bear's faux pas.

 Nevermind.

 It's time to catch the Eurostar/Gare du Nord for London.

See you tomorrow PBers with London tales!

Celebrity Sightings at L'Ami Louis!

Last night PBer Karen from South Africa invited me to dinner at bistro L'Ami Louis. We'd never met but she says she feels like she knows me. Karen makes divine Ooh La La Artisan Confectionary like calissons, nougat and toffees - I know they're divine because I ate FOUR nougats on the Metro going home last night.
Her two daughters, Saffron and Scarlett (why did my mother name me plain-Jane Carol) joined us. They're tres bonne eleve - they drew, played games quietly through the meal. Only at the end did Scarlett fall asleep on the table.

Everything at L'Ami Louis is huge portions.

While Saffron drew and munched Karen and I noticed Helen Mirren at a table across the way.

She is just plain gorgeous.

The giant salade frisee was gorgeous too.

As were the huge stack of frits

My caille/quail - when I finished they brought another!

Back to gorgeous Helen - Irresistable.

Sitting in the back of L'Ami Louis I thought I saw stunning actress Carole Bouquet...

Oui et non? What do you think?

Karen says non...

I was so blitzed by celebrity stalking I couldn't focus on our fruits rouge dessert

A Ha, another celebrity of sorts...

A red crocodile Birkin. Remember Le Divorce (Leslie Caron was in it) with the famed red croc that fell off of the Eiffel Tower?

Time for zzzzzzzs

Salon du Chocolat is tomorrow.

BONNE NUIT PBers!