{"id":4667,"date":"2020-03-01T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:43:44","slug":"paris-arrival-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Paris Arrival 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day got off to a slow start. \u00a0Our flight from Philadelphia arrive early due to a tail wind, normally this is a good thing because we take the RER and Metro so no schedules to deal with, however the trip we arranged for G7 Taxi to pick up up. \u00a0So with it being Sunday and airport passenger traffic light we brewed through Immigration and got our bas ASAP however we had to wait around for and hour for the Taxi. \u00a0Again good news bad news, the was no traffic on the road from the airport so the normal 1 hour ride took about 30 minutes. So were to meet the apartment people at 10:00 and we arrived at 09:30, again a wait.<\/p>\n<p>Good news were all in the apartment and we have all unpacked and we have been out to the grocery for basic supplies so we can have some wine and cheese today and coffee in the morning. \u00a0I have located the nearest boulangerie so that I can get croissants and a baguette in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_5542-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4683\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_5542-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The apartment is across the street from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagrandeepicerie.com\/en\/rive-droite\">Le Grande Epicerie de Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We have charged our Navigo passes Pat and I for a month and Shelley for a week and Stacy has a brand new Navigo as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tonight we&#8217;re headed to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.rotondemuette.paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Rotonde de la Muette<\/a> for dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: We changed restaurants at the last minute and opted to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madisoncaffe.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madison Caffe<\/a>. \u00a0It had a great happy hour with 3-euro drinks and a pretty good Focaccsia however our suggestion is that enjoy the happy hour and move on while the some of pasta was tasty it was a bit under seasoned, we had the pasta with mushrooms, the fusilli\u00c2\u00a0Arrabbiata, needed more heat, and the Fettuccine Alfredo needed more parmesan as did the fettuccine salmon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow Pat and I will take the metro \u00a09 over to Madeleine and get off at St. Augustine and a short 8 minute walk to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.free.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freemobile<\/a> Store to get SIM cards so we will have a French number and data service for about 20 for the month[print_gllr id=4668]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day got off to a slow start. \u00a0Our flight from Philadelphia arrive early due to a tail wind, normally this is a good thing because we take the RER and Metro so no schedules to deal with, however the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=4667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978],"tags":[980,979,982,983,981],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madeleine","tag-cell-service","tag-freemobile","tag-freemobile-store","tag-la-grande-epicerie-de-pari","tag-sim-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}