Today I discovered the very cool Cafe Beaubourg on my morning walk around the 3rd & 4th arrondisements. I must have walked by this cafe at least 100 times and never been in, thinking it was probably too touristy being so close to the Centre Georges Pompidou. But I was wrong, it seems Paris doesn’t necessarily work like that. It turns out that this is actually the first of the ‘Costes’ establishements, those same Costes of the Hotel Costes fame.

I sat down to a cafe creme while I read the International Herald Tribune and my copy of the latest Donna Hay magazine that I received this morning in the post. And if anyone was jealous of my time in Paris, you now have real reason. It was a lovely morning.

I’m sure I’ll be back, at €5 a coffee I won’t be a regular but whenever I can….