Our last day in Paris

Wednesday October 1, 2025. Our last day in Paris.

As usual we were leisurely for the first half of the morning. While Susie sipped coffee I popped over to the corner boulangerie and picked up a couple of croissants and a pain au chocolate, relieving us of all our loose Euro change in the bargain.

While both pastries were tasty and the laminations just right we thought the pain au chocolate was a bit skimpy on the chocolate.

Since I'm not allowed anywhere near the luggage during packing, Susie packed our things. She is a whiz using the packing cubes and before long our bags were sealed up and ready for traveling. 

I had reserved an Uber for pickup at 12 noon and our driver was a bit early. We had just left the building and had to wait outside in the warm sun for only a few minutes before our car arrived. It was a pretty quick ride to the airport; although, as usual getting out of the city was stop-and-start, we were impressed at how fluide the traffic was on the peripherique (ring road). It slowed only briefly until we got past a traffic accident and were soon speeding right to Charles de Gaulle and our hotel located next to Terminal 3. (In fact this was an identical replay of our past spring trip.)

When we went to check in we learned our room wasn't quite ready so they gave us access to the "executive" lounge where we settled in for an hour or so. After a cup of coffee and cooling our heels in the lounge we decided it was time for lunch so that's where we headed next.

We both had the French onion soup and it was even better than the one we had on the Mouff so long ago (or so it seems now). The bowls (Staub knock offs) were full of caramelized onions, the broth sweet and rich and instead of sliced bread they used lovely little bread rounds topped with Cantal cheese. The same cheese we had at our wine tasting lunch! We each had a glass of Alsatian pinot gris to cool the heat of the soup. Delicious!

We spent the afternoon relaxing in preparation for tomorrow which will be a very long day of not relaxing. That evening we returned to the lobby and enjoyed a glass of wine during Happy Hour in the executive lounge (people with lots of folks who, like us, didn't look like executives).

Around 7 pm we moved to the hotel dining room, in the open atrium lobby, which is very light and airy and quite nice. We split a pizza and a each had a glass of Brouilly.

tap your own beer for Happy Hour

lots of folks partying in the bar-lobby

After dinner it was back to our room and a bit of reading/puzzling before bedtime. Tomorrow will be here soon!