ACCENTS

This weekend April and I were recounting to the girls how, when we were in Paris, we were looking for one particular macaron/bakery.  The name of the place is Laduree, pronounced 'Lawderay'.  We could NOT find it.

Finally, following online instructions, we went to the indicated corner of a fairly large shopping centre/building.  All along we asked shop keepers "do you know where Laduree is?"  The response invariably was, shoulder shrug, hands splayed out, and a shake of the head accompanied with a "non non (then gibberish)".  At the last shop kiosk we asked again and again got the usual response, when April suddenly noticed a Laduree kiosk/shop right behind the shopkeeper.  She pointed and said 'there it is!!!!'.  The shopkeeper turned around and goes "Accchhhh!  Laghchderrrrraaay!  Oui Oui!!" Okay, come on now.  Other than rude back of the throat noises added in she said it exactly the same way we did.  Obnoxious!  This happened everywhere that we asked for direction…words like hotel, or the name of the next town, restaurant…..no one understood…on purpose I am sure.

Anyway, I told the girls I would put some pics on here so you could see the place.  We walked a ways down the main street from that kiosky one to the actual big real one…which they were renovating.  Wouldn't you know!!  But we got a general idea.  I also saw one in Covent Garden on a later trip so I have included a couple of pics from there too.  So here they are.  TTYL

THIS IS THE ONE IN COVENT GARDEN

THIS IS THE ONE IN PARIS

THESE ARE THE PRETTY BOXES THEY PUT YOUR PURCHASES IN

THE FAMOUS DESSERTS AND MACARONS

THIS IS THE BAG THEY PACK YOUR GOODIES IN, ALONG WITH UTENSILS PRETTILY WRAPPED