One Month in Paris Gone

Our time in Paris generally reflects our time on this entire trip.  We felt like we had plenty of time, but we're currently packing our things for our departure to Normandy tomorrow, and we don't know where all that time went.  We hit all the city's major sites, and a number of lesser known sites, but we still don't feel as though we did everything we wanted to do.  I guess there never is enough time.  We haven't posted that often recently because our internet has been on the fritz, but we'll try to catch up on a least a few posts.

To celebrate our last night here, we stopped at a local patisserie to pick up some pastries.  The goods here are pretty expensive (€4-5 each), so we had stayed away until tonight.  Magge chose a macaron, a staple of French pastries, and I got Le Récif, chocolate mousse with thyme covered in ganache sitting on a brownie.  It wasn't the best dessert I've had in Paris, and the thyme-chocolate combination was definitely a little different, but I still enjoyed it.  I later found that this exact pastry was absolutely skewered by a pastry critic: "The Récif is like the sad, maladroit fumbling of a first year pastry student at a 3rd-rate culinary school.  This is a piece almost completely bereft of anything redeeming... This is trash."  To each his own, although the level of vitriol in the review made it sound like the sad, bombastic fumbling of a first year pastry critic that failed out of a 3rd-rate culinary school.  If having a sophisticated palate means you can be that angry at dessert, then I don't care to develop mine any further.