Having had such a late night last night, I decided to head out late but there was a method in my madness. Paris has a lot to offer at night and it isn’t just shopping and eating. There were a couple of things I have been wanting to do for years but just never seemed …
When my mobile phone went off yesterday I got a bit excited, thinking it maybe be British Airways, calling to inform they had located my luggage. No such luck. Instead it was a reminder in my calendar; tomorrow is ‘cemetery day’. This was a day ‘he’ and I celebrated. It was there we had secret …
An inner struggle of guilt had to be overcome today before I could relax and make the decision to stay in. Today marks one week since I arrived in the City of Lights and I needed time to relax and regroup. Even although I don’t really have many belongings the apartment has still managed to …
Buying a box of Pierre Hermè macarones, was a big mistake, it is way too difficult to stop at one! Ever since the excitement of landing such a great seat to see My Fair Lady, is perhaps the reason I checked and double checked my ticket tonight, or maybe it was the sugar overload. Whatever …
After spending half an hour on hold to British Airways yet again, with still no outcome, I decided to hit the internet to see if I could find some other way of tracking down my suitcase. Short of going to Charles de Gaulle and demanding to see what they had in storage, I came …
French Lesson #2 du lèche vitrine – window shopping I loved this phrase from the moment I learnt it at L’Alliances Françaises, 4 1/2 years ago, window shopping but it’s literal translation : to lick the windows! This morning with the seagulls in the background and the on hold recording from British Airways telling me it …
Red called half an hour before I was to leave for the airport to let me know traffic was chaos – I cancelled my pre-booked taxi and asked them to come straight away. Whisked off to the domestic terminal with the taxi groaning under the weight of my bags, I arrived in record …
French Lesson #1 Je vais – I’m going … the wonderfully, clever Michel Thomas who sadly, has since passed away, is my hero and my french teacher. Well not my personal tutor but kind of. This remarkable man developed his own unique way of teaching languages. With his method he not only gives you …
Who Wants a White Christmas Anyway? It was only yesterday, – I threw my head back and laughed – ha ha ha – I can see myself stranded in Singapore on Christmas Day with a suitcase full of winter clothes – ha ha ha. And as if on cue – the kookaburras in …
We learn a lot of lessons in life as we skip along through it. Some profound and some so subtle that we hardly reaslised what we had learned from a person or experience. Like a lot of Aussie’s before and after me, I filled a back pack and took off for two years wandering around …