Good morning guys!
Morning!
It’s a beautiful day here in Paris.
Absolutely blue sky perfect.
So we thought this would be a great day to go to the Luxembourg Gardens and just explore.
We’re off the subway and on the way to the gardens we wanted to get a little snack
and apparently the best bakery in Paris - I read a lot of places - is on this street.
So I thought we should make a pit stop.
Let’s do it.
C’est la spécialité d’ici.
Ah oui? -Ici?
Oui. -Ah merci.
C’est une sablé.
How is it?
Good. It’s like shortbread a little bit.
Don’t mind if I do.
The chandelier is made of bread.
It’s a bread lover’s dream in here.
I can’t believe the chandelier’s made of bread.
That’s amazing.
We were just walking and we found this amazing church: Saint-Sulpice.
Saint-Sulpice and there’s a girl who was doing a sketch of it
and I thought it was so lovely that I just… we went up to her and said,
‘Could I please take a video of your sketch?’
And then we started chatting and she was just so nice.
She’s French but she just arrived in Paris recently.
So we kind of made a new friend.
So we are still heading to the Gardens with our bread.
Oh yeah.
They were so nice in that bakery and I cannot wait to eat their famous sourdough bread.
Me too.
We made it to the Luxembourg Gardens and I don’t know if this is too soon to say but
I already feel like it’s one of my favourite public spaces in Paris.
Definitely.
It is just beautiful and it has this great balance
of feeling very grand but also kind of casual at the same time.
This started in 1612.
It was built by Marie de Medici when she built the Luxembourg Palace
which is still on the grounds obviously
and - I don’t know - there’s all these manicured lawns and statues
and well maintained gardens but it also has this real community feeling
and it’s got lots of places for kids to play.
There’s places for tennis and basketball.
People playing chess and reading and I think my favourite part of the whole place
is the circular pond in front of the Luxembourg Palace.
You can rent little sailboats and there’s kids running around the outside with big sticks
trying to push their sailboats around and it just seems like an absolute dream for children.
Like if we had children this would be the number one place I would want to bring them in Paris
because they’re all having an absolute blast.
It just seems like a very relaxed space and a nice way to spend your time when you’re in Paris.
There’s another reason why kids love coming here and we’re going to go see why right now.
We’ve arrived at the Théâtre du Luxembourg and we’re about to see Three Little Pigs
or Les 3 Petits Cochons.
When I heard there was a puppet show here I knew that we had to go.
It’s been around since 1933.
It’s the biggest puppet theatre in France and they have more than 2500 puppets so…
I didn’t know it was the biggest puppet theatre in France.
Yeah.
Well I don’t know how many there are to begin with.
True.
To be honest.
But I read it’s the biggest one in France.
Yeah.
So we’re going to see Les Petits Cochons - Les 3 Petits Cochons.
Les 3 Petits Cochons.
So we’ll go in and let you know how it was after.
That was so cute.
I love children’s theatre.
I didn’t know what to expect, to be honest.
I just thought it sounded charming and it delivered.
Yeah.
There were so many kids there and it was very interactional.
Like the puppets spoke to the little kids in the audience
and they would also say, like, ‘Oui!
Non!
Bonjour!’
And like all this cute stuff.
And there were so many times that I just found myself laughing because I love children’s laughter.
Yeah, they were going nuts.
So to hear a group of little French kids just loving it was the best.
And they were trying to warn the puppets.
It was The Three Little Pigs and every time that the pigs didn’t see the wolf behind them or something
they’d be like, ‘Non!
Non!
Attention!’
Like it was just so, so cute.
I just loved it.
It was totally random and not the kind of thing I feel like you’d normally plan to do.
But if you’re in the Luxembourg Gardens then…
You have to.
…I would totally recommend it.
It was so cute.
And I loved the whole time just being here.
I didn’t really know what to expect but I loved it.
Yeah, it’s so beautiful in here.
I love all the manicured trees.
I love seeing the sailboats.
That was my favourite.
It just totally caught me off guard.
I had no expectations coming in and it was just this massive, amazing park that
honestly is one of my favourite parks now in the world.
Yeah.
I wanna come back.
I don’t think we’ve spent enough time here but we have to go.
I know.
But I would like to come back. -It was too short.
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