Paris, the house and the cafe

Recently we came to a point in our life where nearly everything is as uncertain as it can be. Of course, we are slowly working through it, but with our tickets for Europe (yay!) already bought we have just over a month to figure everything out. The biggest of all, the house conundrum seems to cause us most problems. Our landlord suddenly expressed strong wish to renovate half of the building, which, in this case, means breaking it all and rebuilding it from the scratch. While I do like the idea of the kitchen without leaking roof, I have a nagging suspicion the work won’t be done before our return. Plus there is a question of what to do with all our stuff and the naughtiest of all: should we move? We did receive quite tempting offer, but paying 6 months’ worth of rent for a whole house, while no one (apart from our furniture) is here to enjoy it doesn’t seem like a smart move.

With that said, I’ve been destructing myself with planning our incredibly short visit to Paris. It is going to be our first stop in Europe, so I won’t have access to my collection of guidebooks (still sitting on the shelve in my parents’ house) so I decided to create our own: made to measure to fit all our needs. It’s a work in progress, but it kind of makes me feel like I’m already there, or at least a part of me is. We usually like to fit few less touristy bits into our travels, but with whooping 4 days on French soil, we will barely make it to all the more obvious places. I’ve been making lists, itineraries, plans, routes for a couple of days now and squeezing all the amazingness of this place into merely few days is not an easy task. Even so, I’m still having great fun… I’m nothing if not a gifted planner!

In the meantime, we’ve been toying with the idea of opening a small café, maybe in a year or so. Partly for fun and partly to try our strengths, we decided to start order based delivery cake shop and sort of see how it goes – till the time comes to pack our bags. I’m happy to say, it feels like the sort of thing I could be happy doing. While I’ve never envisaged myself as a baker, it’s such a comforting, not to mention delicious thing to do. Plus it’s a great outlet to all my pastry experiments. I finally get to bake as much as I could possibly wish to without going even half size up!