Jambon et Fromage

Wednesday we decided to have a picnic. We caught the train to Censier Daubenton and went to the street market area. There's a tiny street that just has fresh produce, fromageries, boucheries and boulongeries. We were after just some ham, cheese and baguette, but then something caught my eye. There was a shop with chickens in a rotisserie, however this setup was different, the chicken juice was dripping down onto roasting potatoes down the bottom. The French are geniuses I tell you. So being the horrible fatty that I am I got a 1/4 of chicken and potatoes to have with the baguette.

The chicken and chicken fat potato man aka my pusher man

After checking out about 3 bottle shops for some champagne we were coming to the horrible realisation that no one had any chilled. What the hell? Anyway we figured maybe a supermarche would have some chilled so we got the rest of the stuff for the baguette, cheese from the fromagerie, baguette from the "artisan" boulongerie and then lastly we went to the butcher. After getting the 4 massive slices of jambon we spied some champagne sitting in the cold section with the meats wrapped in glad wrap. I imagine to keep the meat stink off the wines. This man sells all the important things, meat and cold champagne. I told you the French were geniuses!

With that we had everything you need for a successful picnic and so we headed to Jardin du Luxembourg. The park is massive with a palace in the background - its an amazing area. We got a spot on the designated sitting grass and made up the baguettes. They were super delicious.

Later that evening after a rest we went up one of the tallest buildings in Paris to a bar on the 56th floor of Tour Montparnasse. You can either buy tickets to the viewing area or have a drink at the bar and that covers the admission, so we opted for the drink option. There was also a degustion of 3 blanc de blanc champagnes awwww yeah. Oh the view was pretty good too.

Apparently the new little point and shoot has a tiltshift mode.

For dinner we tried to get into a famous creperie called Josselin but it had a lineup. We found though down the street a bit there was another smaller version called Petite Josselin. I really shouldn't have ordered a crepe that had cheese and potatoes and 2 types of meat in it after the massive lunch.  I think I only finished about half of it. After that we headed back home while it was still light at about 10:30