Le Marais / Bastille

On Sunday we decided to go au Marais to stroll around. After wandering around and looking in Hall de Blancs Mureaux and the closed storefronts for a while, we went into a cute restaurant (Glou) on rue Vielle du Temple for a highly-pleasant lunch of gazpacho and a smoked salmon, Chinese cabbage and grapefruit salad. After lunch, the cute clothing shops had begun opening, so we stopped in a few (igniting a lust for rive droite fashion in Liz that I’m sure I will regret) before stopping into the amazing 0fr. librarie for an small-but-excellent Sam Haskins exhibit and some art-book reading.

Sam Haskins

From there, the Marché des Enfants Rouges for some produce photography (taking a page from our dear friend Rebecca Maxwell)

In the marché we came across an amazing little photo shop and spent a while digging through old small-format photos...

Afterwards we stopped into Mariage Freres, and although we were hungry we were uninterested in spending 30€ for a crumpet. So, we took a falafel break at L’as du Fallafel on Rue des Rosiers. From there we wandered to the Place des Vosges, then around Bastille where we visited an insanely expensive vintage store and saw a few of the Space Invaders (including one that is unfortunately falling apart near a cool bar called The Motel on rue Ledru-Rollin).