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Paris (#18) - Salon de Thé

I am not so difficult when it comes to eating when I travel.  I am willing to try local food and drink and I think I adapt well most of the time.  But tea is something I cannot live without no matter where I go.  Stereotyping the French as 100% coffee drinkers, I was both surprised and relieved to find a salon de thé (tea house) in Paris during my first visit there a long time ago.  It is said that today more than 140 tea houses are in Paris alone.

I subsequently discovered that other cities and towns have them also.  For example, last summer when I stayed in a small, off-the-tourist-beaten-path town of about 7,000 people in the Auvergne region, it was a lovely salon de thé, not a typical café, that was in a square right next to the town's church.  Their long list of tea leaves brought from all over the world was quite impressive.  Needless to say, I had a very pleasant stay there.


Paris (#18) - Salon de Thé

Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 8.25 x 11.5 in. (on 9 x 12 in. paper)
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