The whole concept of springtime in Paris is a bit overrated, for the very good reason that it doesn't really exist. Seriously, one day it's winter, and the next thing you know we've skipped right on through to summer. Well, whatever - the important thing to know is that as soon as it's warm enough, it's picnic season! My friend Southern Belle was in town a couple of weeks ago and we made an attempt at the first picnic of the year - it wasn't particularly amazing food-wise (see photo below), but since it was the 16th of March and we were still wearing coats, it wasn't a bad attempt!
However, today it was sunny and 24 Celcius and I met up with English Rose to kick off the picnic season properly. She has the same kind of part-time work hours as I do, and we agreed that the only real benefit to being so poor and under-employed is the freedom to spend random weekday afternoons in the park (beside the Louvre, I might add), enjoying the sunshine while more gainfully employed people are stuck in the office. Of course, this is the only kind of dining out that we can actually afford to do in Paris, so just let us have our little moment of smugness, okay?
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| Picnic #1 - bottle of wine and bag of chips. Not quite gourmet, but still delicious! |
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| Picnic #2 - much more respectable, and even a few healthy items. No wine, but that was only because of our hangovers from the day before... |
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