Les Gourmands de Notre Dame

After see the crypts of Notre Dame today, we were hungry and crossed on the small bridge behind Notre Dame and found this cute little cafe in the Latin Quarter. We ordered tomatoes and mozzarella to start, with onion soup and terraine pâté (basically country pâté).

The food was simple and great, those are Costoluto Genovese tomatoes, which as I told you in my post on Paresian tomatoes are extra good. For the dressing they mixed a little fresh basil with olive oil (not so much as for a pesto) and dribbled it over the tomatoes and mozzarella with a little balsamic vinegar. Amazing and very fresh tasting. The pâté and onion soup was also pretty good, but the salad was the star.

if you love flowers plants birds and animals, then you are in the right place. I love nature photography and combined with my love of bireds, flowers and travel I have decided to create a place to present photographs and information on my favorites. This is a revision of my previous website traveltoeat.com since I become old (and fat) and I have become more interested in photography than eating.

I live in Las Vegas but I travel frequently in the southwest, California and in fact around the world. While Las Vegas would seem to be an unusual choice with regards to plants and birds it is an unusually busy place due to Pacific Migration Flyway which comes through Las Vegas. Since this is a desert, the birds are concentrated in the many springs, seeps, lakes and parks in and around Las Vegas, making for really great birding.

Since the previous blog focused on travel and eating, there will be a fair amount of focus on history beautiful architecture and food.
However, both in the past and today I am always interested in a good garden, zoo, safari or hike.
My idea of a perfect day is to be surrounded by flowers, insects, animals and birds, I hope my photographs and descriptions will inspire you in your own travels and hikes.