Reviving Tales Beyond Taos

I let this blog sleep too long and blamed it on my poor hubby, expecting him to blog about our visit to India in October 07. And then I was unwilling to post non-chronologically. But blogs were never made for rules, so I don't know what I was holding on to. Well, maybe I need to add the resolution to revive Tales Beyond Taos in 2010, besides adding 10 lbs to myself!

Au Revoir Paris

There isn't much we won't miss

our daily bread...

...oh so fresh farmers markets

smells like you've never 'seen' before

speciality stores that tickle every inch of your pallette

...except the cigarette smoke

Au Revoir Paris! Au Revoir!!

Learning things, Making friends

Amit managed to pick up some french (pas de probleme, c'est bon, voila) at the hospital, while I picked up the right accent and a chance for tons of conversation at Lutece Langue! I couldn't have been happier with this little private school where our class was never more than 6 students. Conversation in French was a wonderful common ground for the innumerable nationalities- Spanish, Japanese, English, German, American, Indian...


Meeting and getting to know Gwen and Pascal was great. They showed us the truly local flavor of Paris. With them, we tried Panache (beer with lemonade) for the first time, pigged out on gaufre avec creme marron (waffle with chestnut cream), wood-fired crepes, falafel at Le Marais...more panache....and even had the chance to watch a famous gypsy jazz guitarist Tchavolo Schmidt play.