With the cost of a coffee at a pavement café, once you add on the croissant and orange presse, being rather too oh la la, we chose to take a self catering break to Paris.

Not that the home of haute cuisine has lost its culinary edge, but it turned out to be the best education in French food the seven-year-old twins could have. We could be far more adventurous with our menu, and for a view like we had from a restaurant table, you’d pay more than the whole weekend has cost us. And I doubt the food would be any better.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, and all our french improved too.

Dea

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