Blogs from France, Europe - page 1612

Sigh, it is our last night in lovely Paris. We are sad. :( So last night I set my alarm for about 7:30, because we wanted to get up early to avoid the crazy tourist crowds. It went off, and I tried to get Sarah up, but she was like "5 more minutes". Okay. So 5 minutes later I tried to wake her up again and she was like "15 more minutes". So I snoozed for a bit, then at around 8:30 I tried her again. "Lets just sleep till 9". Well, when we finally stumbled into the light of day it was about 10:30. Hmm... sneaky... Today we took a day trip to Versailles where we saw le Chateau (not the store, the castle). On the way I tried some French coffee because I haven't had my morning fix for ... read more

So far Paris is the greatest city ever. The people are SO nice (partly because of Sarah's ample bosom I think, but hey, at least they are civil), there is so much to see and do and there is a very relaxing mood about the place that makes you feel like just sitting and chilling out, preferably while eating my new favourite dessert, strawberry tartelettes YUM. Today we woke up quite early, to the chagrin of Sarah, and took the Métro to the Louvre. We stayed there for about 5 hours or so and admired all the art. I'm not much of an artsy type person, but some of the exhibits were really cool. We went into the Egyptian art gallery and checked out some cool things like sarcophagus heads and such, and the Napoleon exhibit ... read more

Sarah is already well in the midst of writing her journal on these godforsaken keyboards, she has much more patience than I, so instead I will just say that we are now in lovely Paris, so far my favorite city (although they were all great!), last night was the Bastille Day celebration, so we saw an amazing display of fireworks over the beautiful Eiffel Tower. Today we are planning on going to Montmartre and seeing Sacré Coeur and the Moulin Rouge, among other things, YAY!!! So until I find a proper keyboard, here are some more photos! Enjoy!... read more

Hey all! Sorry for the delay in updating, but we have just been so busy, what with plays, trains and towers, and other such business. Before I stqrt I would like to warn everyone that if this is full of spelling mistakes, it is not cuz im dumb, its because keyboards in frace are arranged differently and so i may press something without meaning to. Like the a is where the q should be and vice versa....wierd Now, to the events of the pqst while. Last we left off, we were on our way to see Les Miserables. OH MY GOD!!!!! That was by fqr the coolest thing I have ever seen. It was absolutely brilliant. Everything qbout it was amazing. No offence to qnyone who ,ay read this that was in our production, but we ... read more

Geo: 49.5059, 2.63746My Moroccan adventure started in Lille, where I was studying for a term at the uni. Lille's a great place and 'the Leeds group' real and adopted were fantastic. It was a lovely relaxing few months. Lille was City of Culture that year and there was loads going on. There was a beautiful park where we used to chill after lessons with a free zoo and porcupine. But by far our favourite past time was sitting under the 'foret suspendu,' sipping coke (!), waiting for the group to gather :)... read more