Still Life, with Coffee - Monday, 23 January

Some people spend a lot of time in museums.  It's a good thing - I might even get to one yet this trip!  But I tend to walk around for a while and then plop myself down at a nice sidewalk café and watch the world go by, read a bit, plan where I'll saunter off to next, mess around with my phone and iPad, etc.

Today I planned to go to the "Comptoirs Richard" shop on rue du Cherche-Midi, just a few blocks from the apartment, to see if I could buy some of their wonderful individually-wrapped version of "Speculoos" (beautifully airy, slightly gingery, brown sugar cookies) that are served with your coffee at many cafés.  They were closed today, but happily the café right across the street served them!  And the sun was out for a short while!  Life is good.