There's no place like home-away-from-home

And this hotel isn't it. Santana Row, sadly, was booked. At least it's next to a Japanese grocery store.

But how does it taste?

On our last afternoon in Paris, we did a bit of a foodie tour, including luxury food shop Fauchon, whose displays look more like a cosmetics counter than a grocery store.

No wonder 'queue' is a French word

Good thing Versailles is lovely. It took us about 90 minutes in line in the very hot sun to buy tickets so we could stand in a second line to get into the palace itself. (The gardens, by the way, are a separate ticket with hardly any line at all.)

I love Paris in the springtime

It's an absolutely gorgeous weekend. And I think I have a new favourite art museum, architecturally speaking, in the Musee d'Orsay. Who doesn't love a good converted train station?