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Playing catch up on photos, went to the zoo with alice on July 18th. Haven’t been there before and always wanted to go. The gorillas were pretty cool and the penguins were cute, lions and tigers were busy sleeping and there was a swarm of kids running all over the place, constantly gesturing the head skull crushing pose. Anyway, here’s some photos, hope you all like:
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first metSamson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn’t mention us
And the bible didn’t mention us, not even onceYou are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin’ on our heads
But they’re just old light, they’re just old light
Your hair was long when we first metSamson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I’d done alright
And kissed me ’til the mornin’ light, the mornin’ light
And he kissed me ’til the mornin’ lightSamson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn’t bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn’t destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn’t mention us, not even onceYou are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first
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
Well, last day of my trip (well last day of touristness, the next day I leave but we just had our breakfast and dashed to the station) it was quite a relaxed one, but nonetheless jam packed with places to explore. We were able to check out where amelie worked as well as Sacré Coeur followed by other random places (stalingrad?).
Funny when you write 5 nights in Paris, you would expect 5 parts of this blog entry. Unfortunately (fortunately?) it will only be a 4 parter. Anyway, our next day in Paris we went to see Notre Dame, the Pompidou Center (the French version of Tate Modern) and revisiting the Louvre. I think the shots for today were the best since the view from Notre Dame was amazing, regardless of those damn wires that protected people from jumping off the building.
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).
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 
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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
