I hate to devote an entire post to food, but the other day I ate a pain au galette, for the first time so you might want to take notes.

I don’t even know where to begin when talking about French pastries. It doesn’t matter what street you’re on, or where you are, for that matter. In France, you can get a pastry at any time you want, and I guarantee that it will be the single best pastry you’ve ever had, every time.

Okay so back to this pain au galette. It’s basically a king cake, croissant, and pie all in one. It’s round like a king cake, flaky and buttery like a croissant, and has the consistency of a pie and is complete with a hazelnut spread in the center. (Or at least the one I had did.) If that doesn’t sound appealing then I’ll just say it’s a giant croissant with cake batter in the middle. So it’s the Holy Grail of all pastries.

No wonder all of the best pastry chefs come from France. I have already had the pleasure of consuming my weight in croissants, quiches, baguettes, chocolate croissants, apple tarts, éclairs, and macaroons. Even the McDonald’s here has a separate counter specifically to order pastries. Yes, I went to a McDonald’s…

It actually isn’t all a dream come true though. I bought a baguette from a pâtisserie the other day and decided to save half of it for the next day, however no one informed me that the second you buy a baguette from a bakery it pretty much starts turning to stone. So basically you have to eat it all right away. This is literally why everyone walks around gnawing on loaves of French bread. I found this out the hard way when a piece of my baguette fell on the ground and I stepped on it, nearly severing my foot in half.

So while my normal diet of trying to refrain from eating tortillas and queso for every meal may be on hold for the time being, I am now trying to restrict my bread intake.

However, being in this enchanting French city would not be the same if I didn’t take advantage of all the desserts and breads available to me.  So I will do just that until I can salivate over a bowl of queso again.