Saturday afternoon is time for basic grocery shopping and doing the washing.
Dinner at Chez Marianne, (good reviews on multiple websites), a degustation of kosher fare- well prepared dips, meat ball, falafel balls, fish, vegetables middle east style; accompanied by a 37.5cl bottle of Cahors, an always reliable region for good value red (also recommended by Shannon Bennett).
On Sunday time is given to family communication- in our apartment we have the best 2 way video we have ever experienced; all our correspondents except Xanthe comment. Then a visit to the oldest covered market in Paris, Le Marche des Enfants Rouges (1615). A mere postage stamp size on the food section of the Queen Vic market envelope and far from the madding crowd, at least on mid morning Sunday. The charm is in the politeness of personal service - our vegetable stall man sets aside our plastic bags one by one and comes round to the front to hand the whole bunch to us. The boulanger adds a roll to our selection of a small loaf. ("Cadeau!") The bread was delicious with a slightly sheeny low crumb texture.
We have cod for tonight and a few days' vegetables. Tony was tempted by the pumpkin size tomatoes and romanesco broccoli heads, but the chef passed on these, and also the chanterelles, at least for today.
In the afternoon a we strolled into the bustle of Place des Vosges and viewed it's trendy galleries for art and sculpture and tourist produce.
Next to Vosges the Hotel de Sully pictured is typical of the district. The new piece of garden art, not in the web photos, is the giant molehill with bronze mole.
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