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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 :()
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
Haven’t had a holiday abroad for years and years. It’s pretty depressing that I don’t have that time to just chillax and get away from it all. So yeah, Alice is currently travelling around in Europe however (dunno if using “however” is a cool idea) one of her locations is Paris, and that’s where I’ll be meeting her Here’s her at uka’s place, really jealous that she’s meeting all sorts of people abroad.
I really like uka’s green walls, wish I could pull it off in my room, but I get the feeling I’d go crazy if I spent too much time around it (even though green is my favourite colour) Right now my walls are nice and blue and they make me feel quite calm :).
So yeah, will be taking photos of Paris trip like a motherbitch, any ideas of where to go? Except the dead obvious ones. The plan was to originally meet up at the Eiffel Tower (not at the station, bang on at the Tower) but hey, we’re practical people and I’m arriving after work so I’ll be seeing Alice at the station. Will be fun!
Finally, was able to actually get this damn duck evening sorted. No idea why this event was labelled “damn duck” but inn kept hammering that line on long enough to cause the duck to be damning, plus it’s been a god damn long time to get this event sorted (3 odd months) I previously was able to book a table of 8 for 7pm for the epic duck weekend to celebrate my various achievements including graduation, job and first paycheck. Basically a lot of events crammed in one. It was hard these days to get time off, have it synchronised with everyone and pull off a big meetupmathom but somehow we managed, Inn took her time to actually decide on a date since she had to book it and her company had weird rules on it. I was flexible since it was easter period and I had planned on booking a long holiday to spend time with Alice before she heads off abroad.
Right folks, I’ve managed to go on a super blogging spree and am now up to date with the blog. To save you guys from finding out what’s new here’s a list of new posts I’ve blogged tonight:
- Stuart’s birthday
- My new ipod
- My phone which everyone seems to hate haha
- Christmas with Alice
- New Years Eve at Stu’s
- Murder in monochrome gig
- Graduation Weekend
- New york new york!
- Comparing new york and england
- Super jetlag meetup
- Okkervil River
- Polysics
- Weekend up with Alice
Yes, that is a killer list haha, doubt you can read all of it!