Parisian Getaway

A couple of weeks ago Andrew and I shot across to Paris for five days of sun, style and pastries!!!

My absolute highlight was a Scooter Tour around the streets and sights of Paris - including a loop around the infamous roundabout at the Arc de Triomphe. We went with Left Bank Tours (check out their site: http://www.leftbankscooters.com/v02/ ) and had the best time with our guide Pablo. He was super friendly and knowledgeable, plus he liked us because we could actually ride scooters and didn't just claim we could!

The pastries we had in the city of light were amazing!! I'm sitting here drooling as I think about the delectable Raspberry Tart that I had almost every day from the local patisserie. Not only was the custard sweet and a great consistency (with plenty of it too!), but the short crust pastry was the perfect texture and the raspberries were seriously the best raspberries I have ever tasted!!!

The only bad thing about our trip was the hoardes of tourists at all the big sights. From hours-long lines at Versailles to people changing their baby's nappy right underneath the Eiffel Tower (seriously wouldn't normally have a problem with this but she wasn't even pulled over to the side - not a nice sight to have to walk around!) the over-complex-camera toting, tacky-souvenir buying tourists were everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, I know I was a tourist too but Andrew and I always try to amalgamate with the general population (obviously successful on this trip as I was asked for directions in french at least four times!) and get off the beaten track a little bit. Obviously when you go somewhere like Paris, there are some pretty big/important sights to see, so we had to be around all the usual touristy stuff... It just reminded us why we prefer to avoid it!!

Anyway, here are some of my favourite snaps from our trip!