0 Dior Secret Garden

 She didn't blog yesterday...

She was caught up in the mad search for visas

 Up against the walls of bureaucracy

 She went into hiding fearful, trapped

 She would pretend all was well

 Put on a good face

 But inside terror struck

 She wanted to run away from it all

 But climb the steps she must

 Lost in a maze of paperwork in triplicate

 She would find her way clear

 And breath l'aire frais

 Get some perspective, calm down

 Croise les doigts/cross your fingers she makes it.

On verra bien.

 Have you seen the new Dior Secret Garden?

Don't miss it.

Shot at Versailles and features Dior-clad models running through the castle’s gilded halls. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shot the living campaign, starring Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju in Bill Gaytten’s last collection for the house.

 If she does make it, she'll stay one night at Hotel Petit du Moulin designed by Christian Lacroix-29,rue du Poitou 75003

 She'll sleep in the most outrageous bed ever

 Run down the dotty stairway like no other

 Grab an apero

 Race out the front door

 Always looking

 For the perfect pastry

Ah...only Pierre Herme's unpronounceable gaufres will do in their elegant boxes

0 Lots of Macarons

 Voila Macaron day!!
MERCI for your best wishes hier/yesterday!

 At Gerard Mulot on 72,rue de Seine 75006 just down from the piscine.

 Chef Mulot is often on the premises checking everything is correct.

 My Mulot macarons gift-wrapped on a metro seat.

 On to Dalloyau on 5 bd Beaumarchaise 75004 - their newest tower of macarons.

 Inside the flavors await.

 When they ask you if you want your macarons as a gift/cadeaux?

 Toujours, tourjours dit OUI!

 Or you get a paper bag or worse in plastic and they crush so easily.

 On to Cafe Pouchkine's golden disks in Printemps

 In gorgeous colors.

 You can wear your macarons at Anne Maisonneuve.

 Or put them on a spinning plate (why would you want that?)

 Hang them from a tree for a Springy effect...

 Pierre Herme's modern tree of macarons

 At the mini exhibit in Galeries Lafayette.

 Herme's croquis/sketches how he designs and plots his pastries

 Big dollops of filling make Pierre Hermes macarons the 'fattest' of all.

 His giant macaron sculpture to dream of...

Tiny macs at Limoge on 232 rue de Rivoli to put in your poche/pocket.

BON WEEKEND!

0 Bear's Last Day in Paris

 Carolg did NOT want to leave Paris this trip!
merci Jean-Paul Goude

 A last jump into St.-Germain piscine.

I wish Carolg would stop saying,'Je neige'
when she means 'J'ai nager'..ahem

The flipflop saleswoman at Monop laughed de trop.

 Post-swim a last 'reward' from nearby Pierre Herme. Ooops no kouign amann left.

 Pastry expert, Raids-Petisseries said we must taste Herme's new tarte collection.

 But we fell for 'Gourmandise Constellation'

 Back in the rue running home we wolfed down the PH kouglof studed with dried fruit.

oh la la - quelle crunch!

 The Gourmandise Constellation can NOT be eaten in the street.

 Lordie!!

 Then a mad rush to make order of French Girl's appart...eek

 Then a mad rush to RER B -> CDG!!

 Bear got to browse the pelouches again.

 Bear's brightest idea ever...

 A 5-minute deep full-body massage for a mere 2 € near AirFrance's gate.

 The trip home was amazingly pleasent thanks to that massage perhaps.

 Carolg is back doing the stairs hourly

(not Parisian escalier malheueusement).

BIG NEWS!!!

She has to get thin for Paris!

House sitting for all of July and August is on the menu PBers.

Yahoo :)