Still stories to tell from Paris

Travel day to one of our favourite cities. We've found a studio apartment on the second floor (with lift) in the second arondissement. It's viewed as an up and coming district and really buzzes. Everything ran smoothly from the moment the village taxi picked us up at 8.45. Travel to Tours on time, TGV on time. Got to the apartment for 3pm.  Mike had booked a 4-day Paris pass on line, which we picked up before we went to our digs. Discovered the local collection point was just up the road from where we're staying. We'd texted the agent to say we'd arrived and they were at the studio to meet us. Ideal for two people. Compact, but kitted out well. 

The metro is 5 minutes away. As for what's around locally. Foodie place, so loads of restaurants - French, Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese, French/Indian combo, Thai, Italian, Greek and that's just up one street. Not that we're eating out all the time. Loads of provision shops and delis and bread shops - so we'll have some fun with that lot. We were just going back to the studio having got some basic provisions and thought we'd look in at the Salle des Saveurs, which is literally next door to the apartment block. All sorts of top quality food items - surprisingly not that expensive. Started chatting to the owner. Then having had a look round in the front part, we walked through to the back to find it was laid out as a tiny apèro bar, which serves plates of delicious patés et saucissons. So we stayed for a platter. We asked for a white wine and he came up with a couple of glasses of delicious Sauvignon. €10 per head. Not bad and so yummy.

Dropped the shopping back at the apartment then a bit later went out to have a look around. Definitely picked a good spot - Les Petits Carreaux - and definitely off to a good start. All we need now is for the weather just to lighten up a bit, but as long as it doesn't rain, we're fine.