Back home, but not before I'd attempted to persuade switching lives for two weeks with Granny, and hopping back on the Eurostar myself... No such luck, but we're down to 1 week and 5 days. We can do this!!
Today we went to a few small tourist attractions - 'Paris Story', where we watched a 40-minute film on the history of Paris (focussing on the buildings and how it has come to look like it does today), and 'Choco Story' which was a bit of fun, looking at history of cocoa. It was actually quite weird seeing it from the French opinion, and I discovered that hot chocolate came years before solid chocolate! And there wasn't a word or image related to Cadbury... just WEIRD. :P It was amazing the obsession with hot chocolate and cocoa - there were hundreds of cups dedicated to drinking cocoa! There was a demo of making pralines, and also some examples of chocolate clothing, although something tells me it's not about to catch on just yet!
We took lunch at Chartier, a very famous French brasserie. The inside is so huge and elegant, and I don't think you could get any closer to 'everyday French life' if you tried - the rushing of waiters, the speed of everything from running dishes to taking orders... It can feel very chaotic, but it's an experience. In the evening's there's about a mile-long queue up the street - they don't take reservations because they are always in such high demand!
And where would we be without our daily Space Invader? Found on Rue Gluck, which just seems such a hilarious name for a French street.
So this evening I've had a quick catch up with online TV, that familiar annoying drone of guitar in the house and horrendous rock music from the bathroom... Yup, I'm home. The one bonus though is that I'm back to a free-of-charge speedy internet connection. :) But it was so relaxing to have a weekend away - if you'd told me I was in England I might have almost believed you!
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