Paris - Bon Appetit 2 - St. Germain

Saint Germain:

We were strolling around to look for food, and we entered the district of Saint Germain.  It was a very nice area with small elegant boutiques and brand name shops.  We were starving but we were still picking a suitable menu and a nice bistro/brasserie to chill.  We walked by this outdoor terrace and liked the ambiance, so we sat down :)

Cafe de Paris: What a cliche....but I liked :P

Waiter approached and asked: Drinks only or meal?  Meal please Merci!  We got seated with a mini round table.  Most tourists were having meals while most locals were having drinks at this time (~3pm).  I ordered a latte and he ordered a glass of beer: Stella.

French Onion Soup, Escargots and Some baked cheese and meat on a toast? with salad

We ordered all appetizers as we didn't want to be too full for dinner later.  Ordering three appetizers allowed us to try more dishes :)  The Escargots were delicious; French Onion soup was filling (as usual in France).  I kind of forgot about what the third dish was, but I remembered it was quite tasty too.  The cheese melted onto the bread and everything blended in.....Yuummmmmmmmm!

Le Cafe de Paris Brasserie: located in Saint Germain, a tourist area

We chilled here for a long time.  Oh yea, there was free wifi here too.  Many cafe/bistro now offered free wifi for customers.  We had to ask the waiter for the password and it expired in 2 hours or something.  People watching was another very interesting thing to do in Paris.

After our meal, we walked around the St Germain area, very peaceful and clean.  Supposedly this is a high end area for brand name shops and tourists.  I was going to look for the Galeries Lafayette.  We were going to metro there, but we couldn't find the metro station and I think by the time we get there, it would be closed by then.  I checked the closing time earlier.  So we ended up walking around and then we got lost.

We couldn't find the metro station.  We saw a lot of M signs around but we couldn't locate the station.  We read the map, and we got confused.  My feet started to hurt and then we were lost for another two hours.  We walked from St Germain all the way to Eiffel Tower.  Basically we were just walking towards the Eiffel, but from time to time we couldn't see it as it wasn't really that tall.  It was always blocked by the other low rise buildings.  Glad it wasn't raining.