Our last full day in Paris today. Breakfast in our apartment as usual, followed by coffee in yet another nearby cafe. We have now tried morning coffee in around 15 different cafes all within a 5 minute walk of our apartment and yet there are probably another 30 or more we still haven't visited.
After our cafe stop we headed back to our apartment to start packing our bags ready to leave tomorrow for Zurick, Switzerland. Afew hours later we were mostly packed up and headed for the metro to catch the subway one last time into the Marais area. We were headed for a jewish felafel restaurant that had been recommended to us by friends. We arrived to the area to find it teeming with people and with many of the felafel restaurants with huge queues waiting to get in. This was obviously a Parisian instituion to head to this mainly jewish area on Sundays for both the food and the shopping. This is probably made worse by the fact that most of the Jewish stores would be closed on Saturdays being their day of sabbath.
We joined the take-away queue after assistance from one of the staff when we found ourselves initially on the eat in queue. There were probably close to 50 people in line in front of us, but it seemed to be the thing to be doing so we decided to stick it out. It wasn't too gruelling as the people watching and the atmosphere in this area of Paris on the day was great to be a part of. It took about thirty minues until we were able to buy our falafel rolls and make away along the streets eating them.
They were great, but as the weather had really turned very cold over the last few days our food got cold quickly, but worse was our hands becoming near numb from the exposure to cold for so long. The last few days had seen us with our gloves on and our hands in our pockets whenever possible, today was no different and actually even a little colder.
We made our way back the Place des Vosges and finished our food there and soaked up a little bit of sunshine whilst enjoying a sunday afternoon in a great little park in Paris.
...to be continued...
