While waiting to check in some guests at our rue des Rosiers apartment, Chris and I had a couple of the fantastic falefel kebabs you can buy in that area. The guests phoned to say they'd been delayed on the RER, and so we went into a boulangerie to find some cakes for dessert.

The boulangerie we went into had some really nice cheese cake - not like the stodgy Starbucks type stuff, but really light and delicous. It was probably jewish style, since that's the flavour of the whole street, but I've no idea if there's such thing as a jewish cheese cake, but if there is and this was it, then it was great cheese cake!

However, while we were waiting in line, someone ahead of us bought some little cookies - the boulangerie lady placed them on some scales and they came to 46 euros!!!

We wondered about this for a while and thought perhaps it was in francs, or the price hadn't been set in on the scales, and then we noticed there were loads of different cakes priced at 30 to 50 euros per kilo! We rapidly rechecked the price of our cheese cake (yup, 3 euros), and then rechecked it again (yep, 3 euros per piece, not per gram).

There's only one conclusion - there is a boulangerie in the Marais selling cocaine laced cakes! They were very popular...

Or, of course, they were very good cakes. How good can a cake be though!