It’s getting towards the end of the trip, so we’re trying to tie up loose ends and just finish everything that we wanted to do, things to see, things we want to get to bring home, etc. We started out craving one more time the delicious pitas at Man’ouche just nearby, so that made a great lunch. Next, we walked over to the Bastille to see if we could get some last minute Opera tickets. We saw the Proust ballet at the Opera Garnier (the old, classic one that inspired “Phantom of the Opera”), but we didn’t get a chance to see the newer (20 years old) Opera Bastille, with its great modern architecture. They don’t do open, self guided tours (at least during the summer), only the more expensive guided tours that only happen on select days and times. There hasn’t been anything playing there for the last couple weeks, but a new show just started there last week, “King Roger,” a Polish opera. There were tickets available, but the cheapest at 35 euro, a bit much for us to do, especially since we really just wanted to see the building. Oh well.
Next we hopped the metro to my favorite place, Le Grand Epicerie, again. We needed one more fix of the best macarons in town, and I wanted to get some herbes de Provence for my mom. On the way back to the apartment after that venture, we stopped at Les Halles to check out France’s most populat electronics store, fnac. Don’t ask me how to pronounce it, I haven’t heard it spoken! It was sort of fun to see the differences and similarities between it and its American counterparts. And also fun to see the computers with European keyboards. On our last trip, we didn’t bring a computer, so whenever we sent an email, it was in an internet café somewhere, and it took twice as long to type because we had to reorient ourselves to the letters being in different places. One of the many reasons (including this blog!) I’m happy we brought a laptop this time around.
After a nap (the last two days were long and tiring) we decided on one more Croque McDo for dinner on this trip, and lounged around eating in front of the Pompidou Center just before the sun was setting. Tomorrow is our last full day in Paris. The blog won’t be as interesting, since tomorrow will entail a lot of cleaning and packing. But anyway…
-Steph
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