Banana and Nutella
We continued walking down the
hill, it was dark now, having no real idea where we were. Cassius stopped into a
corner bakery and got a baguette for .90 euros, we inquired politely as to the
location of the closest Metro stop, and continued walking. We eventually took
the metro, and at first we thought we would go back to the latin quarter, but
then we decided we would just go somewhere else, another stop, and go to the
Christmas markets we had passed in the taxi on the late night of our arrival. I
think we ended up getting off at the latin quarter anyways and walking down the
Seine, past Notre Dame to the Grand Palais and that is where the Christmas
markets were happening. Really crowded, really festive and fun, good smells and
good fun. Cassius got some hot wine, it was a bit too sweet for me, but he liked
it. Then we walked back to the metro and got to the latin quarter, where we got
a bottle of wine after much effort, and found a spot on the seine with our feet
dangling. The second we sat down it started to rain, which caused massive,
unnecessary amounts of consternation but it soon stopped, and we peacefully
drank our wine and got happy and were soon talking excitedly
about a great many things. It got to be the time to be getting going, so I
hurriedly finished the last of my wine, and we went to Rua de la Huchette for
some oily and delicious and stomach wrenching street food, we each got big falafels,
first falafel I’ve got outside Israel that tasted delicious and it looked a bit
different too, folded up in a wrap and put into a triangle like a crepe, I
dripped some white sauce all over my leather jacket, which I got immensely
upset and promptly forgot about until the next morning. Slurping up the last of
that, we set our sights on another crepe, Cassius excited at the prospect of
redeeming his earlier mishap. I got the same again, banana and nutella, and had
another massively happy experience with it. We hopped on the metro, the 7, and
returned to Porte d’ Ivry where we were staying,
set our alarms for 4:40 the next morning, in order to catch the first Metro in
the city at 5:22, to catch the 6:30 bus to the airport to catch our 9:30 flight
back to Dublin.
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