Coffee and no Cake

Today was to be another fairly quiet day as we build up to leaving Paris for Burgundy. We got up late and headed to the Tuileries in search of a cake shop which had been recommended. This we found in the expensive tourist area of the rue de Rivoli. Having observed the beauty of the rows of cakes and the prices attributed to them, we decided against such extravagance and started looking for a specific coffee/tea shop (Cafe Verlet) in the rue de St Honore. Having found it, we were delighted by an old world interior with sacks of coffee beans and large tins of tea lining the walls. But what we loved most was that there were no tourists here and there was the opportunity to try coffee from beans of a single source. Our favourite is Yirgacheffe from Ethiopia and since they had these beans we took the opportunity for a trial. And nor were we disappointed. It was a great coffee in a great place.
From there we went through the Tuileries, where we were approached by people involved in one of the many scams (this particular one is to ask you to sign a petition as a lead in to request money). We brushed this off and proceeded on our way to the Musee Rodin which took us through a diplomatic and government quarter.
The Musee Rodin has a beautiful garden which contains some of best known sculptures including The Thinker, Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac. The garden also offers a view of Invalides and the Eiffel Tower, which is as close as we propose to get to these landmarks. Inside there are many rooms of sculptures most by Rodin but some by other less well known sculptors. Many of the works were presented to the museum by Rodin in 1916 but included in this was the odd painting by Van Gogh and Monet with whom he was friends.
On the way home we went via the church of St Sulpice with its large square and enormous fountain. We had felt that there was a good reason for seeing this church apart from its enormous size but in the end we couldn't remember why and were generally underwhelmed.
We returned home from here to rest before venturing out a bit later to get a long awaited felafel for dinner which was most enjoyable.