Jeudi 26 Mai 2011 La Poste

Over to Place Maubert Market for another go at the freshwater pearls, really what could we do? Then back to pack boxes of excess baggage to send home, didn't think this one out as La Poste chap neglected to tell us that price accelerates alarmingly once weight over 2 kg. In the end had to repack into La Poste box & couldn't have economy & all sorts of complications. Hope all this is going to make a difference to the case (& I haven't bought much at all, unlike someone else who shall remain nameless)
Lunch at Chez Janou near Place des Vosges ( another recommendation off the net) & really very good, we had the menu, tomato tart &  canard something - both excellent & tried the Kir - cassis - aperitif - yum.

On the way back, dropped into L'Occitane, M has taken it as personal challenge to get some free samples out of them in Paris to no avail as yet, but today we hit paydirt. M bought some lovely verbena cologne set for J, the young chap replaced the soap in the set a for a more expensive one as he was telling his future plans of writing poetry, in fact he was leaving work tomorrow to do so. I bought a serum. He then went on to give us a heap of samples while explaining his boss was a "beetch" & he sounded like he was glad to be leaving.  Mission accomplished,  as we sailed home, but who has the last laugh, we have more weight to carry.