The Merrick Sisters Top 10: Paris

Our Top Ten Favorites

Favorite museum: Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
(Technically a hunting museum, but don't let that scare you off. It's insanely beautiful and really cheekly put together. A wonderful little gem of a museum.)

Favorite meal: Hotel du Nord
(Adorable and not scarey pricey, filled with all sorts of Parisians. Sweet Reba took us here.)

Favorite patisserie: Au Panetier
(Enough said)

Favorite delusional residence: Marie Antionette's Hamlet at Versailles
(Like a 18th century mini golf course, complete with little windmill. We were totally in love.)

Favorite painting in the Musée D'Orsay: Twilight by Pierre Bonnard
(I'm a hopeless sucker for green, plaid and spaniels but I was pretty giddy to see the Manets, too.)

Favorite shop: Astier de Villatte
(Best little porcelain teacups, made we want to redouble my pottery efforts.)

Favorite people and dog watching: Jardin du Luxembourg
(The chic old ladies were out in full force, so were the scruffy mutts.)

Favorite antique clothing and textile shop: Chez Dentelles
(Hands down, the smallest shop in Paris. No more than three people including the owner could fit inside and the dresses made us weep from poverty.)

Favorite treacherous staircase: The Catacombs
(The stairs down were scarier than the piles of human skulls.)

Favorite flea market: Porte des Vanves
(Beat out the more famous puces de clignancourt a million to one. I can't recommend this one enough, lots of folding tables and things mere mortals can afford. I wish we would have skipped clignancourt and just gone here at 7am.)

So Paris is done. We arrived in Amsterdam tonight and I'm already in love. The owner of the apartment we rented left us a big bottle of wine and handfuls of dutch candy, so maybe that's why. I get a king sized bed all to myself and after days of refugee style floor camping, this coming week is looking better than ever.