London life = traffic,black cabs, the soulless yet subversively endowed with personality underground system; people people everywhere, to join the rat race, so much so many so big, another beer, another cigarette so many friendly faces at palmers, death and destruction on the news (better not leave the house)
Paris life (1 week) = français français [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Comparisons and Le Guedineiu
Posted in France, Le Guédenaiu on January 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sad goodbyes to paris
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was sunny! The first sunshine I’ve seen in france so far, it made my last whole day in paris SO GOOD. Visited the grand ol’ Paris Opéra which is spectacular, lavish and illustrious but I have no photos as my damn batteries ran out as I was taking my first shot.
Polidorfor lunch, it was [...]
food, illustrious food
Posted in France, paris on January 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Saw the catacombs this morning, pretty cool, pretty creepy. Rest of the day was a bit of a write off, don’t want to talk about it too much.
However Yesterday oh glorious yesterday! The speaking of french that was understood or at least humorous in some way, the beauty of St Sulpice (I said I wasn’t [...]
Tour Eiffel
Posted in France, paris on January 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
see it here, a video of me ranting about the eiffel tower
should be able to embed this somehow but worpress keeps fiddling with my markup dammit.
paris: its not that bad
Posted in France, paris on January 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
OK beginning to get the hang of things now. These french people aren’t half as scary as they look (hehehe) and I have actually said some things in french that people have understood oh. my. god.
Yesterday I started having “what am I doing here in paris, so far from the people and the country [...]
Paris oh Paris
Posted in France, paris on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
crap I just wrote a huge post and then the browser crashed agh.. so paragraphs will be no more, bullet points are here to stay
Paris is just so beautiful.
am still very nervous though
friendly Australian + fellow hostel dweller Greg showed me around a bit which was cool as i got a guided tour of a [...]
Paris at last
Posted in France, paris on January 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
well I made it, god these french keyboards are confusing me. I am staying here but will write more tomorrow as Im (where the hell do i find an apostrophe agh) having a black day* à la Christopher in the curious incident of the dog in the night time so I shall go to [...]
Happy New Years everybody!
Posted in UK on January 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And I hope that yours was joyful and fresh and matched with a nice glass of wine!
I must confess to spending my New years eve celebrations at the hostel, we had a wee party there and then traipsed of to Primrose hill to watch the spectacular fireworks over the London eye . I watched the [...]
Remembering bristol
Posted in UK on January 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Given that I really didn’t write too much about my trip – and that it was fabulous and needs writing about… here we go…
Arrive: Rich, Jade and I -> to dinner and drinks at a Greek restaurant. Was it some weird dream or did we bond on our roles in ‘Joseph and his technicolour [...]
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