My nocturnal life is very much alive and well. I think I have resigned myself to the fact that this is my ‘night week’. When you live in a city, you often say, you will get around to doing things and sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. You could sit back and wonder how many …
After such a late night last night, I fear that I am turning into a nocturnal creature of Paris The guilt of not seeing monuments and museums is starting to build up again but it only lasts for a short time. Since Jim Hayne’s dinner my mobile phone hasn’t stopped ringing and my pocket book …
Isn’t it funny when a girl wants to shop there are no language barriers. My new favourite shoe shop Henry Achkoyan Paris made shopping an absolute pleasure. I didn’t only buy one pair of shoes but two! Almost everyday, since I arrived in Paris, I walk past Henry Achkoyan shoe shop. From the very first day …
Today, being Sunday, started out pretty much like most days. Breakfast, although I don’t remember the seagulls, maybe they weren’t around today or maybe, I am familiar with the sounds of my neighbourhood. Red Skyped me from Australia and against my protests, insisted on a video call. Her, with an evening Cointreau and me, with …
What to do in Paris on a Saturday? I woke up this morning to an unfamiliar sound. My iphone was ringing. Thinking it was going to be a wrong number, I wasn’t that keen to leap out from under my pile of doonas. British Airways claim they have located my luggage and it will …
On my way to Musée Cognac-Jay, I passed through part of Place de Vosges, with a rude reminder that not all is beautiful in Paris. I find it upsetting the amount of homeless people who live in Paris. Maybe I don’t walk around my own city enough, to be confronted by it. An Irish guy …
It was time to get a bit of culture, I haven’t been to a museum since I arrived, in Paris. Of course, I have been to the usual haunts, Musée d’Orsay which I love, Le Louvre. Both Musée Nissim de Camondo and Musée Jacquemart-André à Paris are both magnificient houses and give an insight into how some people …