Designer Window Shopping

The cleaning lady comes on Wednesday to service the apartment so we tidied up and were out before she arrived as she is Columbian and only speaks Spanish and French which it makes it difficult to communicate. 

We walked up towards Champs Elysee along Avenue King George V.  This is the street with a store for every designer you can image and more 'bling' than I have ever seen.  I am still trying to come to terms with a pair of earrings for sale in one window for 77,000 euros.  Who would spend that?  Obviously some people do because there was plenty of items with price tags like that and many others without a price.  Ian kept telling me 'if you have to ask the price, you don't buy in places like that'.  I don't want to ask the price, it is outragous.   We finally made it to Champs Elysee and found the Monoprix store (the bargain shop) where I wanted to stock up on some things and further down the street found a Virgin Mega Store.  Ian found another book he has been looking for so we both came back to the apartment satisfied with our morning out and about.   As we walked back we past the Champs Elysee Palace where President Nicholas Sarkozy resides.   This is guarded on all sides and no one is allowed to walk on the footpath around the palace.  It is a full block with high fences and we watched the changing of the guards at 12.00.  One of the guards was a lady and I was watching her, not realising she was about finished her shift.  She must have been desperate to go to the loo, she was standing crossed legged and looking very awkward.



It doesn't matter what the shop sells the windows are always amazingly well dressed. 
This is a perfume shop but a plumbing supply shop would be just as well fitted out. 

Tonight we went downstairs to a little restuarant for dinner.  The front of the shop is a deli with a meals area at the back with bar high tables and stools.  The menu was puzzling so we picked dishes in the middle price range.   Both meals were interesting.  Mine was lots of Spanish ham (like proscuito) thin slices of cheese and a thick jelly and a side salad.  It was delicous.  Ian had an egg, the same ham, potato, chorizo and mushrooms.  The desserts were extravagantly rich and very yummy.