April in Paris

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… starts tomorrow. But spring started long ago. Cherry blossoms in full bloom, the wind scattering their petals like so much confetti; daffodils, tulips, and crocuses growing wild in patches of grass next to the sidewalk. Aside from a few gloomy days of rain, the last few weeks have been all about blue skies and bright sunshine. The days are getting so long; as I write this, it’s exactly 20:00, but the sun streaming in the window makes it feel like only 16:00.

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I discovered a deli nearby selling spatzle and German beer pretzels. Actually, I’ve walked past the small shop nearly every day for the past 6 months; I’ve just never gone inside, because it’s also a butcher shop, and the window displays, while beautiful, featured only a variety of meat. Until today, that is, when I spotted a huge bowl of spatzle in the window. So I walked through the shop’s doors for the first time, and while 99% of their products were indeed meat or meat-based, I did walk out with the noodles and 2 pretzles. Yum.

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The spatzle was a little dry but delicious pan fried with some garlic and parmesan cheese. (The pretzel was great.) The pretzels were quite reasonable at 1€ apiece, but the noodles came to almost 8€ for “two servings” (it wasn’t sold by weight!)…

Photo #2: l’Union des Commerçants et Artisans de Sceaux

Published in:  on 31 March, 2009 at 19:20 Comments (4)

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  1. On 2 May, 2009 at 05:05 Slawek Said:

    That last pic makes me want to put on my leatherhosen and order a cold Bavarian beer. Now, forget everything I said before the “order a cold Bavarian beer.” :)

  2. On 2 May, 2009 at 21:17 beautifulcynic Said:

    You have a pair of lederhosen? :)

  3. On 14 October, 2009 at 13:52 Tipsine Said:

    I love the picture in your first page, with the tower Eiffel in brown. I would like to have this photography in big size to be able to enlarge it and post it at home. Thank for your future answer and congratulation for your blog !

    PS : I’m french, sorry for the errors !

  4. On 14 October, 2009 at 15:17 beautifulcynic Said:

    Merci de ton commentaire, Tipsine!

    Vous pouvez voir plusieurs de mes photos, y compris celle de la Tour Eiffel dont vous parlez, à cet adresse: http://www.sxc.hu/gallery/misscynic

    Là on peut les télécharger dans des tailles plus grandes; l’utilisation de mes photos est toujours gratuit, mais si vous en utilisez une sur un blog ou un site, j’aimerais le savoir, simplement par intérêt :)


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