Hi all! I'm back.

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maycee

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Actually I've been back since late on the 27th and trying to catch up with work and home. I'm still several days behind on my blog but trying to become current.

Thanks to everybody for their recommendations and support. Two weeks seems like a long time but I've decided that trips to Paris need to be based on themes. This was the overview. Next will be the day trip holiday to outlying areas. Then there will be the pastry trip trying to cover every pastry shop in Paris. The cooking vacation where I buy the ingredients and cook our food myself. The cheese trip. The sausage trip. The shopping trip.

Never, never the laundry trip!

 
Wow, it went by so quickly! Hope you had a wonderful time! Did you enjoy your stay at the flat?

 
We had a great time. I have mixed feelings about the flat...

I'm sure it was a bit larger than a hotel room and the small fridge and coffee maker were a plus but I would have preferred to have laundry service. It just took too long to wash and dry small loads. Almost 5 hours to wash and dry. Much better to drop your laundry off on the way to breakfast and pick them up clean and folded when you get back in the afternoon.

Also, on this first trip to Paris I never even tried the stove in the flat. I did see the most amazing ingredients in the markets and would have loved to do some cooking but there just wasn't time. Besides, by the time we got back in the evening we were exhausted. In Florida we walk from an air-conditioned house to an air-conditioned car to an air-conditioned office. Which never covers 10 miles in a day!

 
I'm with you on that one...

When I go on holiday, I like to be on holiday, not in a flat or house where I can do the exact same things I do at home, i.e. cook, clean, laundry, etc...

I want service! I want hotels!

 
Unless you traveling on $25 a day and can't find a laundrymat and the front desk says:

"Bring to us" in quasi-English/Italian. And then returns your backpacking shorts, T-shirts, socks and underwear a few hours later, ironed to perfection and hand-delivered in a small brown paper package wrapped in twine.

At a cost of ₤95,000.

Which you hand over in stunned silence because you had spent $5 doing laundry in Florence and this was $60--or 2.5 days worth of trip budget.

For ironed socks.

 
The closest I came was a french cafe off Pike's Place Market early in the morning.

Everyone in the cafe was speaking french. The bread was warm and crusty and got me almost--but not quite--there.

 
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