BSAPL. Tour de Dee et Mike

Saturday: another cool day. Forecast was for a much cooler day with showers. Got very windy.

Our original plan was to visit Chartres today. Seeing how many areas of Paris we have not explored decided to stay in town.

Stopped for petite-dejeuner at Fauchons as we were forced to pass Concord area. The whole Concord area is shut down to traffic. Rue de Rivoli shut down. Later in the day when we tried to take the Metro it whizzed past 8 stops and took us to Maillot. Had to backtrack and walk.

Above empty Concord and Rivoli

First a visit to Carton, the bakery highly recommended by Mike and Dee. Sold to us as their favorite croissant. When we reached this section of the 6 th QB started stopping, again, at each bakery. A good recovery.

Outstanding croissant as well as some raison bread, a sable raspberry. Diabetic overload today for sure. Angelina croissant very close in quality to Carton; Fauchon good but not as good.

After a full tour of the hood following the guidance of Dee and Mike.

Cour de Commerce, Rue Buci, rue St. Andre des Arts, Rue Jacob, rue Dauphine and then the very very wind tunnel of the passage, place Furstenburg, and wonderful tea at Malago. S

Wandered over to Luxembourg gardens but closed. Windy today and a tree, one tree, fell down and they closed the whole place. Wimps.

Headed over to Bouillon Julien. Server asked us if we found the place due to NYT article, said yes of course. She turned out to be a charming 20 something who dropped out of Ecole Polytechnique, did not like the business world culture, and now wants to become an astrophysicist. I encouraged and mentioned Matt Strassler on black holes: yup, very good writer she said.