Shopping for Dinner in Paris

Tuesday June 18 was a travel day.  We had our last coffee in Vienna at Alt Wien Kaffee, near our apartment.

Our landlord gave us some chocolates and we were on our way.  We left Vienna on a 12:55 p.m. flight and arrived in Paris at around 2:50 p.m.  Our Paris Shuttle took about 90 minutes to get to our apartment.  We are staying in the same apartment building as last summer, but in a different unit belonging to a friend of our landlady from last summer. She double booked us in error and has found us two different places for our two weeks in Paris.  Luckily, we know and like the first location very much.  It is at 34 Rue du Fer A Moulin in the 5th.  There is a lovely courtyard with four buildings around it.  Lots of plants line the courtyard.

Courtyard and plants- very quiet when one enters a large door from the street

Our apartment is more modern than last year's and has everything we need.  It is very quiet and the guardian who let us in is very nice.

Living room, eating area and bedroom

Kitchen area

Bathroom

After unpacking quickly, we went over to Rue Mouffetard, the food street that is only five minutes away.  We stopped at a number of shops picking up things for dinner:

The fish place where we got our fish

Where we bought a bottle of Brouilly

Strawberries and other fruits and veg 

Androuet- one of my favourite cheese stores- opened in1909- wonderful brebis (sheep cheese)

 Chocolate from Jeff de Bruges

Great Tin Tin window at Jeff de Bruges

Le Boulanger de Monge, where we got our baguette was on Rue Monge about two minutes from our apartment.  After dropping the food at the apartment, we decided to walk to Blvd. Saint Germain and to Rue de Seine for an apero.  On the way from the 5th to the 6th arrondissement we passed the apartment at 74 Rue Cardinal Lemoine where Ernest Hemingway lived with Hadley, his first wife, from 1922-23.

On Rue Danton, we saw a memorial plaque for someone killed during the last days of WWII in 1944. There are many such plaques in the centre of Paris.

Civilian victim killed on August 25, 1944 on Rue Danton

Unfortunately, two places where we were thinking of going for an apero were totally packed, and we were getting tired.  So we stopped for a sorbet at Grom, my very favourite Italian gelato/sorbet place that we used to frequent in Rome last year.

Toby at Grom

We took another route back to the apartment and passed another building at 39 Rue Descartes where both Hemingway and poet Paul Verlaine spent time.

La Maison de Verlaine with plaques about Verlaine and Hemingway

Hemingway quote from A Moveable Feast, one of my favourite books about Paris

Verlaine died in this house in 1896.  Another plaque inaccurately says that
Hemingway lived there in 1921-25 (he actually had a studio there, but didn't live in that building)

Due to the warm weather in Paris today, there were many folks out in the cafes.

Scene at Place de la Contrescarpe

We headed back to the apartment for a great dinner with all the ingredients we purchased earlier today.  Tomorrow will be our first full day back in Paris.