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Lunch had been organic sandwiches during a stopover at a park across from the Gare d'Est, Paris. We had 3 hours to see the sights today and started with the Maison de l'Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière (1556), a remarkable building, built in the Tudor revival style. Inside, the collection of 11,000 hand-made tools that the industrial revolution has made obsolete wasn't really our thing, but the place itself was worth a gander. Four specific streets are singled out by Lonely Planet for capturing one's imagination, i.e. of Moliere's time

or when the Three Muskateers would have been on the loose (at least in Dumas' books): Rue de Vauluisant, Rue de la Trinité, Rue Champeaux and Rue Paillot de Montabert are all worthwhile. We had a drink on Champeaux and then we dined opposite - I had a steak and babe had pork and potatoes.

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We started the day off with one last medieval street called Ruelle des Chats and had an unexpected fruit tartlet, partly to pass some time before our train would leave for Essoyes, and as we had a hankering for one - the blackberries were my favourite berry featured.

See Essoyes

Back in Troyes, we sampled a savoury crêpe, which I should add, are humungous and yummy.