{"id":982,"date":"2020-08-07T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/?p=982"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:16:51","slug":"picnic-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Picnic in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My friend and former coworker started a travel blog with her friend: Trek Simple<\/a>. Though we’re in the middle of a pandemic and can’t actually travel, they suggested travelling from home. Their first suggestion, Picnic in Paris<\/a>, was so much fun that I decided I might try one virtual trip a month. Here’s what I did for my first “trip” the weekend before Bastille Day .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Adventure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As it was far too hot for me to picnic outdoors, I laid out a green sheet to represent grass and a pink blanket on top of it to sit on for my indoor picnic. I circled the blanket in white lights and dug up a little Eiffel Tower keychain as well. My cats were thrilled to join me, happy to find a new blanket to sit on and also to find that there was cheese suddenly at eye-level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I heated up some dinner while enjoying appetizers, listening to music, and reading two short books from my permanent collection. Once dinner was ready, I piled a few cushions on the blanket and settled in to watch a French movie with the lights off apart from the computer screen and the string of lights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Choices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I decided that each of my travel from home trips were going to consist of the following: music, meal, sweet\/dessert, movie, book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music:<\/strong> \u00c3\u2030dith Piaf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greatest Hits<\/a> on Amazon Music (the timing happened to work out perfectly so that the music ended just as the oven timer beeped)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meal<\/strong>: <\/strong>French bread (left over from my lunch in “Provence” I shared virtually with friends from church earlier that day) and cheese appetizer, spinach quiche<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dessert: <\/strong>Petit \u00c3\u2030colier cookies (I remember bringing these to French language class in elementary school for our holiday party)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Movie:<\/strong> Am\u00c3\u00a9lie (I have wanted to watch this movie for years, so this was a great excuse to finally do so!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book(s):<\/strong> French for Cats<\/a> <\/em> and Advanced French for Exceptional Cats<\/a><\/em> by Henri de la Barbe (I have read the former book many times, as I was given it during my childhood, but this was only my second read of its sequel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend and former coworker started a travel blog with her friend: Trek Simple. Though we’re in the middle of a pandemic and can’t actually travel, they suggested travelling from home. Their first suggestion, Picnic in Paris, was so much fun that I decided I might try one virtual trip a month. Here’s what I… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-from-home"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kintailscape.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}