New Year Celebrations in Paris!
Yes, this post is way late, but I’m still catching up on posts from our trip…
We spent New Year’s Eve in Paris but instead dining at a swanky restaurant and joining the Champs Elysee crowd for the fireworks, we chose to have an intimate dinner for two at our hotel room. That morning, we left our bottle of Veuve Cliquot to chill (the balcony was colder than our bar fridge) while we gathered our menu items from a little place located on a little side street just off Rue St Honore. They had scallops, sea urchin, prawns, crabs and a host of other delicacies to tempt us but we (only) ended up purchasing a cooked lobster, seaweed salad and some caviar.
The hotel kindly provided us with dinner plates, champagne glassess and cutlery, and we were set to go! We laid everything out on a tray and sat on the bed for a simple, fun hotelroom picnic – just the two of us.
We chatted, read and watched television while waiting for the countdown, then rushed out onto the balcony when the clock struck 12, with me wrapped in a thick blanket, to clink our glasses of champagne and gaze at the firework display.
February 9th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
That sounds like a fabulous new years
I hope to do something similar one day.
February 10th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Sounds like much more fun than mine, Times Square is sooo over-rated but hey, it had to be done right? And I’m so far behind in NYC posts it’s not even funny =)
February 11th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Clare: Definitely!
AG: We were at Times Sq last year and we left at 11:45pm to head back to our hotel & watched the whole thing on TV.
February 11th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
What a lovely way to celebrate New Years. Nice
February 12th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
oh god! the sea urchin! i so miss those! anyone knows where to find them in England?
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February 12th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
tankeduptaco: I agree, it was lovely low-key way to spend NY
fiordizucca: and I want to find out where to get samphire in Australia!
February 16th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Hi Cin, samphire grows all around the coast. I’ve seen it at Tooradin and a lot further on at Robertsons Beach, near Pt Albert. We picked and cooked some, it was salty and crunchy. Try and pick the tender shoots, the older parts of the plant are a bit tough.