[magosienne]

because i hate being bored, i always try to do many things at once. so of course, i like to take advantage of every situation to spend some calories.

i hate running, to be honest i find running is a bit stupid. but i walk. actually, it's not that i walk. i run. but i'm still walking, lol. it's a fast paced walk. many times when i go walking with some people i'm the advance woman .

i can't tell why but i crave for chocolate these days. in my family it is traditional to have a special dessert, preferably homemade, for sunday's lunch. so i took the occasion to try a recipe for a chocolate mousse. but no way i'm using eggs (yuck and i can never use egg whites in a recipe without it ending tragically). so instead, i use silken tofu.

there is no healthfood store near my home, so i had to go at the nearest located at montparnasse. it's about 30 minutes away from home.

step 1 : join the bus station at the other side of the street. jump in the bus, then take the underground line 13.

step 2 : get out of the underground at the "montparnasse bienvenue" station. join your favorite and usual exit.... at the other side of the station !! (it's a big one, with different lines meeting there). you may notice Murphy's law in action : you want to reach your exit ? walk !

step 3 : join the next boulevard called boulevard Montparnasse. walk.

step 4 : turn at the left corner and walk in the boulevard Raspail. reach your healthfood store.

Usually that's where it stops but of course ... they were out of silken tofu !!! (Murphy's law...).

step 5 : go back to your underground station to go at your second favorite healthfood store. you have to take the line 7, which means for that you have to take the line 6 until a certain station.
walk. again, i cross the entire station ... >.< add to that it's late in the afternoon, right when people have finished work and go home, so there's some crowd in there !

step 6 : get out of the train at "Place d'Italie". reach the line 7 at the other side of the station. yes, i seem to do that a lot (someday i'm gonna kill that Murphy). be sure if i search for something i have to cross an entire station if not a street to find it. i can tell you some streets in Paris are waaaay long. good thing i hate heels i suppose.

step 7 : get out of the underground at the next station because you took it in the wrong direction !! i forgot i wasn't going to the chinese grocery store (although i could have certainly found silken tofu there... [insert mental case here]).

step 8 : now that you are in the right direction, stop daydreaming and get out at Censier Daubenton.

step 9 : get out and walk until you reach the street " rue de l'épée de bois" (wooden sword street : isn't it cute ?). reach rue Mouffetard and walk in your healthfood store.

step 10 : the store is small but labyrinth like, and the tofu is located in the back of the shop. again, i walk. they still have some silken tofu !!

step 11 : pay your stuff and get out. reach the underground. catch back the line 6.

step 12 : get out at Denfert Rochereau to catch the RER (suburd underground).

step 13 : get out at the terminus and reach your bus.

step 14 : get out at your bus station and walk home.

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now i think i damn well deserve some chocolate mousse !!