Paris

Although Paris was not on my lifetime travel list, I found myself pleasantly surprised to enjoy her charms.

From a small window, this serious fellow made us many delicious crepes over the course of our stay. My favorite being the crepe with chestnut paste. On the first day, EJ and I took buckwheat crepes (galettes de sarrasin) and sat by the River Seine.

Picadilly Line to Cockfoster

There is nothing so British sounding as taking the Picadilly line to Cockfosters.

My first day in London, I promptly went to Waitrose and raided the cheese section.
Gorwydd aged Caerphilly - although advertised quite promisingly as being "tangy with lemon undertones", I'm wondering if there had not been some sort of mistake or perhaps this is the way they unloaded no longer needed models at Madame Tussads. Cornish blue was a very reliable blue and the
Lincolnshire poacher was the most tangy and interesting

British food has much improved in the last decade. I munched on some rather fantastic almond croissants regularly, some examples better than the ones consumed in Paris. But you can still fall back on hearty pub fare with various deep fry.