{"id":1309,"date":"2012-05-10T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:25:57","slug":"may-10-no-specific-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/may-10-no-specific-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"May 10&#8211;No Specific Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sojourn I wanted us to do whatever came along\u00a0on any\u00a0particular day and that&#8217;s mostly what we&#8217;ve been doing, subject only to the exigencies of work. Some days it works, some days it doesn&#8217;t, some days it rains.<\/p>\n<p>Although I wouldn&#8217;t particularly be heading there at night in the middle of winter when it&#8217;s dark, Chez Michel, 10 rue de Belzunce, in the sketchy 10th arr.,\u00a0a few minutes from Gare du\u00a0Nord,\u00a0is a place I&#8217;d go to anytime of day\/evening. The bread (a loaf of which you can buy on your way out), the morels in wine sauce with a poached egg on top and the Paris Brest were worth the trek, let alone the rest of our lunch. A diverse and fun wine list from various the various regions. One thing we&#8217;ve noticed over these years is that even young wines taste better, fresher, more flavourful,\u00a0without having been shipped across the Atlantic. This place was another treat in a city full of them, oddly enough just down the street from our friends&#8217; Jackie and Paul&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>Later went for a long walk around the &#8216;hood; but really did little but a little work after lunch.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1309 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/may-10-no-specific-plans\/236_1171\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/236_1171-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1311\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1311'>\n\t\t\t\tAbout a two minute walk from Gare du Nord. Apparently, Megan, a favourite of Catherine Deneuve (whom we did not see today). I suspect she is chauffered there.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/may-10-no-specific-plans\/236_1172\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/236_1172-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1312\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1312'>\n\t\t\t\tCave a vins.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/may-10-no-specific-plans\/236_1173\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/236_1173-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1313\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1313'>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe a better photo of Gare du Nord; theinside reminded us of Paddington in London.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sojourn I wanted us to do whatever came along\u00a0on any\u00a0particular day and that&#8217;s mostly what we&#8217;ve been doing, subject only to the exigencies of work. Some days it works, some days it doesn&#8217;t, some days it rains. Although I wouldn&#8217;t particularly be heading there at night in the middle of winter when it&#8217;s dark, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}