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Continuing from the epic night in Paris, we enter our next day of our little holiday. To recap we’ve been lounging around for 4 hours in a museum and climbing some ungodly stairs up to the eiffel tower. We were slightly lost in the metro and were confused with the vast amounts of sushi places. I must say we did go to the two most important places in Paris since we knew about how long the waits are and just wanted to get it over and done with (the weather was nice and all) before the weekend came and all the tourists came out to play.
We started our morning with some breakfast, Alice brought her Jam along and used it to spread on her croissant whilst I enjoyed it with a touch of butter. The breakfast was the same as yesterday so we were pretty certain that the breakfast is going to be the same throughout. Today we were going to do some shopping at the Galeries Lafayete. This store was the equivalent to London’s Harrods or Selfridge’s, a big shopping centre with top quality brands selling top quality stuff at high high prices. We obviously didn’t buy much here but it was definitely fun to look at. Alice bought some nice jewellery and some postcards. Not much happened in the store expect for the story about this random French lady with two chicken fillets (which I’ll tell another day).
Not sure why I picked Spanish for a language back in college, French is so much cooler. So I’ve decided I will self study the language when I have time. Seems like a pretty hard task to do with so much in my plate atm but I will try learning it passively so it will slowly catch on. This means subscribing to a French podcast and talking to Alice in French more, she’ll probably enjoy me trying and encourage me.
So yeah. French. Here’s the things I need to do:
- Subscribe to french podcast
- Speak to Alice in french every now and then
See more progress on: learn french
Man this was one epic holiday, so much done in such a small time span of 5 nights in the city of Paris. This was my holiday abroad that I was well overdue for and boy was I going to “holyday” in style. Alice had planned to travel Europe for 2 months and one of the stops was Paris which I was very keen in visiting. So we decided that we would meet up and enjoy Paris together, and boy was it amazing.
Each day was jam packed with events and places to visit and take photos of, most of which will pretty much give you an idea of what we done for the 5 nights in Paris. So lets begin with the evening where I arrive in Paris after work and the next day where we visit the Louvre and Eiffel Tower.
I suppose with a trip to Paris it deserves a lovely to do list before I head off. Don’t want to forget anything since I hardly get to holiday much. If you can think of more things to add or places you’d recommend feel free to comment, especially those native people 
(though it’s a bit late :()
Anyhow, here’s a list of things I need to bring/pack/buy:
- Tickets
- Passport
- Wallet
- Phone (emergancies and pre/post paris)
- Euro adaptors (got 2 woo)
- Euros
- Tripod and remote/ext (want to take some scenary shots with me and Alice in them)
- dslr with all memory cards (raw baby)
- Clothes
- Toothbrush etc
- ipod
- ipod charger adaptor (phone and ipod uses usb!)
Here are places to go and things to do, feel free to suggest anything, Alice won’t read this hehe:
- Eiffel fucking tower
- Take stereotypical photo of it and perhaps lash kev’s photo of it
- Go cafe’ing inside Eiffel
- Buy a small eiffel tower for Alice
- The lourve
- That arc thingy
- Buy a beret! Need to look like a native french person :p
- Make fists with feet on carpet, die hard style (not plane trip but meh, it’s a tradition)
- Try a snail nigiri
- Some candlelit action, either small restaurant or picnic
- french bread, nom nom
- check out opera house del phantom
Update
Well, I actually did everything I put on the list so that’s pretty epic
Haven’t had a holiday abroad for years and years. It’s pretty depressing that I don’t have that time to just chillax and get away from it all. So yeah, Alice is currently travelling around in Europe however (dunno if using “however” is a cool idea) one of her locations is Paris, and that’s where I’ll be meeting her Here’s her at uka’s place, really jealous that she’s meeting all sorts of people abroad.
I really like uka’s green walls, wish I could pull it off in my room, but I get the feeling I’d go crazy if I spent too much time around it (even though green is my favourite colour) Right now my walls are nice and blue and they make me feel quite calm :).
So yeah, will be taking photos of Paris trip like a motherbitch, any ideas of where to go? Except the dead obvious ones. The plan was to originally meet up at the Eiffel Tower (not at the station, bang on at the Tower) but hey, we’re practical people and I’m arriving after work so I’ll be seeing Alice at the station. Will be fun!