Paris: Day Three

To be clear, this series of posts on our European trip is meant to serve as a chronicle of a trip that we returned from 2 weeks ago. Some people seem confused on that point. For OPSEC reasons, I never discuss our travels until after we return. Don’t want anyone who doesn’t have a need to know being aware of our absence.

So this is about day three in Paris, the 20th day of our trip. Being our last day here, we did a bit of shopping, a bit of packing, and some lying around doing nothing. To be quite honest, we had both reached a point where we were just tired of being on this trip. So we went to breakfast, and I want to show some pictures of what a European (French) breakfast looks like. First, there are meats and cheeses:

Fruit:

Baked goods:

along with the Omelet I pictured in other posts.

We walked a couple of blocks to the Champs Elysees. We didn’t get much, mostly because prices were ridiculous. Here is a purse we saw

Yeah. That purse wasn’t big enough to hold $3500 worth of stuff, making the back worth more than anything you would put in it. We walked into the McDonald’s- not to eat, but to establish prices for my Big Mac index. A Big Mac in Paris costs about $10. Just the sandwich.

We stopped by a French pastry shop and bought some Eclairs (chocolate and coffee flavored, if you are interested). We also hit up the Lindt chocolate store. I bought about $150 Euros worth of chocolate. We are still snacking on it two weeks later.

Then it was dinner time and get ready for bed. Tomorrow is a travel day, so it will be a long one.

On the way back to the hotel, I saw a store with a raisable vehicle barrier to prevent smash and grabs.