Conventional wisdom in the UK and the US says if you eat the above, you'll end up in the picture below. Steak Tartare is raw meat mixed with spices and a raw egg.Ecoli and salmonella for lunch.
My colleague wolfed it down and showed no ill effects. I've eaten it in the past and been fine. I just don't go there anymore.
My schedule in Paris was jammed and I had no time to see the sights, which is a drag as the city is astonishingly beautiful. The hotel I was staying in was pretty crap and expensive ( Paris is NOT a good city for hotels unless you're ready for 500+ euros per night), but had the attraction of being in Montparnasse and next door to a graveyard with some famous residents.
Yanks in Paris leave the most depressing notes on gravestones. Jim Morrison's last resting place is apparently even more bizarre.
Besides the graveyard I went to the Buddah Bar (beside the US embassy and Place Concord hotel). Trendy and very poor service but the sushi was passable.
There was a ripple of excitement amongst the crowd as a strange looking Karl Lagerfeld sat down at the table behind us.
Really weird looking guy.
Camp, grey and covered in pancake he had a little hand held fan fluttering away keeping his leather clad body cool as the dribbles of makeup ran down his face.
It put me off my grub but was cool in a bizarre, "lets watch a train wreck" kind of way.
It was an unscheduled floor show which made the $30 drinks a little easier to swallow.
Living waxworks are interesting.
Finally I took Eurostar for the first time in a while.
There's a reason why its losing so much money:
Its expensive, empty and uncomfortable.
The $50 easyjet revolution has put many a nail in it's coffin.
Too much graveyard-death imagery in this post today.
Lighten up T.
That's it for Paris.
T
4 comments:
Glad you got to see some of that gorgeous city. It's definitely top 10 for me.
Oh, and BTW, stop it with the death stuff already! Enough is enough! Some incredibly happy and wildly fulfilled person once said:
"Whatever we focus our attention on grows- it's as though we are watering ideas and situations like plants, with the waters of our powerful thoughts."
Be careful what ideas and situations you focus on,T, or you just might grow nothing but weeds!!
Hmm ok. I WAS in a graveyard. It was an impressive place actually, with various monuments etc. I'll try and avoid the negative and concentrate on more "Palm tree" type thoughts....but to do that I might need some of the "weed" you've been smoking!
Not palm tree. . .parrotfish!
i had steak tartare for the first time last night. i loved it. and i can owe that to you :)
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