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Paris - Day 1 "Gizzards"

Clem and I are in Paris and so far so good. The weather is good, but some may say its to dark and overcast. I love it, although it was rather humid today. Clem's friend Eric is letting us stay in his extra bedroom. His apartment is located in the La Halles district of Paris. The neighborhood is so friendly and beautiful, most of the streets are for pedestrian traffic only. The downside is Eric's apartment has a killer view of the rooftops, which means we have to climb up 6 flights of stairs. No Elevator! I made it through day one.

We took a long nap after arriving, both of us got little sleep on the plane thanks to two screaming kids. We just got back from dinner at this really amazing, very little restaurant located a couple of blocks from here. The name of the restaurant is Quincambosse., The meal was amazing, very simple and very french country. Clem had potato and ham tart and I had a salad with chicken, duck and gizzards.....which then sparked a long discussion on the word gizzard and how the french pronunciation sounds so much better. I decided am not hold back on the food front. I want to try it all, like Clem said at dinner, he almost ordered the lasagna but gave into the idea of exploring a little. The waiter was extremely friendly although he was working a full room - which was a total of 6 tables. When I say small, I mean small. The restaurant was decorated with many antiques, the was fascinated by the bunch of dried holly sprigs hanging over the entry area. I wondered if it actually had a meaning or ritual to it. Everyone thought I was nuts.

After dinner we walked around a couple of areas I am not familiar with the names right now. One area Eric said was known as Boystown or the gay neighborhood. Honestly I was enjoying all the french architecture from light of the street lamps. We stopped and read a number of plaques. We also popped our heading into a couple of galleries that were open. On the way home we got some Gellato and headed back up to the apartment. Several apartments are having parties so you can hear everyones conversations echoing off the rooftops.

On the fashion show front, I received 6 invites in the mail total. Three of them have already passed. Two of them are what I was expecting (Gilles Rosier & Elie Saab) plus another invite to a designer show on Saturday. I am going to skip the show on Saturday and focus on Sunday only. Eric brought a few invites from his work as well, one invite is actually a assigned seat at the Gilles Rosier show for his boss at Newsweek. So I am going to use that one and another invite to the Collette Dinningan show which is also on Sunday. All three so far will be at the Louvre. I am a little bummed I did not make a trek over to the Alexander McQueen show tonight, but I would have to leave everyone for our first night here. So I gave in!

Well that ends our first day in Paris, I am heading off to bed.

to see photo's from today go to......

http://homepage.mac.com/clem/kincaidholloman/PhotoAlbum27.html

posted by turlie @ 4:28 PM