After successfully completing the exhibition, I stopped by Paris again this year before returning home and stayed there for only two days. It was a short vacation in Paris.
The first day was Sunday, so we went to the flea market in Clignancourt.
What you are looking for are antique coffee mills. There are coffee mills of various ages. After much searching, I found a brass coffee mill from around 1820 at a reasonable price!
Other harvests include a small vise for old engravings and an old advertising key chain.
↑upGrandpa is antique enough
↑upStore selling colorful beads
In the afternoon, we went to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, next to the Louvre, to see the renovated jewelry exhibit. The exhibits were diverse, including ancient jewelry, medieval and modern antique jewelry, masterpieces of long-established Parisian jewelers, and contemporary jewelry of today, all in a pitch-black room with a view to the backside (very nice for the creators!). It was not only very interesting but also educational, displayed in an ingenious way,
In the evening, I met with a former colleague from my previous job who has been living in Paris since last year. We had tea at Café Fleur to recover from the museum, and then went to Yulin, a French izakaya in Carceratan! Afterwards, we went to Yulin, a French tavern in the Quartier Latin.
This is a Japanese-style French restaurant opened back in Paris by Yulin, a handsome and good-looking Frenchman with a rather unusual background who has lived in Japan since he was a high school student and later worked at Girou Girou in Kyoto.
The French cuisine, served with chopsticks with a delicate taste like kaiseki, was very reasonable for a Parisian restaurant at 35 euros for a seven-course menu, and I was very satisfied with each dish.
However, I didn't know whether to pair it with wine or liquor until the end, so I had it with beer the whole time." It's a "izakaya", so that's okay. My married friend was satisfied with the food, but also with the handsome owner.
On the second day in Paris, an artist who lives in the suburbs of Paris and works for a creative accessory maison showed us around the wholesale district of Asakusabashi, which could be called Okachimachi or Asakusabashi in Paris.
Brass Chain and Parts Shop
Interesting to see the myriad of parts of the motif.
In the evening, we met up with the members of the exhibition and went to a restaurant near Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the mood for a final launch.
We had foie gras pâté as a starter and couscous with grilled sea bream as the main course, served with dry rosé wine.
The most delicate and elegant couscous in the history of life. But how do you mix couscous and sauce!
It was a wonderful evening to end our two-week stay in Europe.
It was a trip that my stomach and liver held up better than my body. As usual.
On the last night, with little sleep, we managed to pack a huge amount of luggage, making the trunk 4-dimensional.
We left Paris early in the morning with our large, gypsy-like luggage and returned home safely.
Now, I will gradually introduce what I have purchased in my blog.
Enjoy!
