LIAINPARIS07

5 days shopping in Singapore - Just Lia and Bob... read more

Should have stayed in bed. Get up determined to fix the internet problem today. Call apartment managers to come and fix the modem again.........they will call the provider. OK, so where is an internet cafe? Ru Du Quatre September........no worries except that I walk around for 45 minutes before finding the cafe.......4 Euros for an hour. OK ..... I forget about the French keyboard being different and stuff up my Bigpond password 3 times........locked out for 3 hours! Called Bigpond on international number ......."We are experiencing higher than usual call volumes.........not waiting 1/2 an hour on international roaming thanks. Stuff around for half an hour then find that I can actually log in again. Start an email, then my time runs out..........lose it all !@#$$%#@#$%! Breathe deep.........pay another 4 Euros and send some emails. Think I ... read more

My chance to go back to the fabric district of Montmartre unaccompanied. OMG OMG OMG……Kimmy, if you came here shopping you would need a shipping container to get home. So many beautiful fabrics, tapestries, silks, furnishing fabrics to die for. I make do with a few metres of fabric for cushion covers, a tapestry panel and a silk cheon sam? , but only because I wont be able to carry it home. This morning I got the guy from ‘Paris Apartments’ to come and fix our modem so I could move the blog along but when I returned this afternoon, the internet was down again. So I’m writing this on word, ready to cut and paste when I can get back onto my blog site ... read more

Up at 5am to catch the Eurostar. Slice a chunk off my finger packing Bob’s razor but don’t have time to dwell on it as we have to walk to the Metro station to get to Gare du Nord in time to check in. We make it in time to see the railway officials cordoning off the entrances to the check in facilities??????????? Lots of people milling around asking questions and looking panicked and confused. Finally find someone who speaks good enough English to explain that there has been a fire near the railway lines in London involving gas cylinders and all lines have been closed until at least tonight. Options are to train to Calais and take the Ferry, fly (at our own expense) or re-book. With all of the panicking people who have ... read more

Justin and kathy have to return to Limerick today so I walk them down to the train station, stopping for sugar and lemon crepes for breakfast. I'm addicted.......I never understood what the attraction was with crepes until now. I'm going to buy one of those little stick things that you swirl the crepe mixture around with (if you think that's OTT..........one of the other wives is taking home a bloody great round electric crepe hotplate!. Ive done some research on the internet because although we are surrounded by very chic, tres expensive boutiques, I wonder where all the normal French people shop, where they buy their ubiquitous big black coats and leather boots. Lo and behold, we have been walking over and past, Paris's largest underground shopping centre (Bob has been doing so for 4 weeks ... read more