tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62577228392879938702024-03-19T11:02:29.797+10:00A Box of ChocolatesA Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.comBlogger558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-81983060363857620702014-06-23T02:55:00.000+10:002014-06-23T02:55:39.457+10:00Pigale and Montmarte - Sacre Coeur Day 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we decided we would take a little stroll around Pigale, the part of town where you will find the Moulin Rouge. I overheard a young British girl say to her friends, "Really that's it, it sounds so romantic to say we are at the Moulin Rouge, shit it's like one of our shitty old pubs back home." Pretty well sums it up actually. The Moulin Rouge sits faded red between two rather unremarkable white buildings, like some weird windmill in a town full of filth. The Pigale area, apparently meaning Pig Alley, is the red light district. Every other window is filled with sex toys and skimpy lingerie. On the train over,I was confronted by a woman, well I think it was a woma. She looked like she had had a bad dose of botox and acne scars, well let's say she wasn't a beauty. She sat with a friend a darker haired version of the first, drinking wine from a glass in the train, with the bottle squeezed between her legs. She said something to me snarling really, I had no idea what she said, I smiled and she snarled a little more. I mumbled Merci, what the!!!!! What was I thanking her for ha ha! She glared at me, her friend gave her a dig in the side. Everyone on the train looked the other way. Adrian was a bit away from me, he could hear her talking but didn't know she was talking to me. A gypsy woman jumped on the train and started singing, weird lady sang along and at the next stop I rushed over to where Adrian was standing. Far out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took a very brief walk around Pigale and headed up to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur,_Paris" target="_blank"> Sacre Coeur</a>. There is a Funicular there now so you don't have to walk the hundreds of stairs, that Monmartre is notorious for. For the cost of a metro ticket you get to stand in a little glass sauna and ride up the staircase. This is the skyline from the Sacre Coeur, the pictures above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take a stroll around the back of the big church and you will find some little laneways, away from all the crowds. You might even find people having a picnic lunch/celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might see this beautiful vine covered walkway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe you catch a glimpse of another skyline, the one that is Montmarte. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then never ever if you can possibly avoid it catch the RER Blue line. It is always having difficulties and today we spent 40 mins roaming around the Gare De Nord trying to find the Blue line that would bring us home. Little did we know that it was once again not working. That's the problem when all the notices are written in freaking French. Everyone else is making their way to the alternative train platform, we are roaming up and down miles and bloody miles of terminal trying to find a bloody train that isn't ever coming. I seriously had a panic attack, I felt like I was going to be eternally stuck in the bloody train station. Finally home, I needed a vodka and a sleep. Tonight we are going to L'Orangerie for dinner with Stuart and Darlene, and if I hear another bloody siren or horn toot, I am going to stick something in my ears so I go deaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Till Tomorrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is our 10th full day in Paris, it's the 21st June 2014 and it is about 5pm. The sun has been up since about 4ish this morning and it is hot. The sun is definitely not as burning as in Australia but I am quite red. All the walking around we do has us in the sun quite a bit. The girls have been gone 3 days and the apartment still seems quiet without them. I have my i pad on now with music playing just to break the silence. Open the big windows though and it is noisy, traffic and voices filter up to our living area. Yesterday we went on a canal cruise of Canal St. Martin. A word of warning if you don't feel like listening to me grumble leave right now. Above is a building that sits on the banks of the Canal, so cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above is a view of the canal from the starting point of the cruise. Those are the only nice things I can say about the entire experience. We thought it sounded great, 2.5 hours of cruising the canals from the Canal St. Martin area, ending at the Bastille marina. We bought our tickets and waited around for the 1.5 hours till the cruise would leave. As we sat waiting about 15 mins before we could board a tour of Germans arrived and stood right in front of all of us waiting on the banks for the past hour or so. Then the captain announced that the group would go on first. We were all pretty ticked off, Adrian asked the girl taking if the tickets if she spoke English of course she said, have you heard of trip advisor he asked yes she smiled, good because we are gonna slam you on it he said. It was down hill from there on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the group took the entire upper outside seats and most of the front outside seats. We went through 4 double locks, it took about 15 minutes each and after the first one it was pretty boring. We couldn't see what was happening as the Germans had the seats that you could see from. The interior filled up with the smell of the diesel and it was awful. Then the woman who had initially thought we were going to be nice, did a narration of the different sights along the way. Well we think that's what she was doing as all we could pretty much hear was her rattling on in French to a boat full of Germans and English speakers WTF, and then she would give like 2 sentences in English, which with her accent we couldn't understand anyway. As Adrian said once again the French folded at the bloody knees to the Germans. It was just the shittiest thing we have done so far. Rant over!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So most of you would know that we paid a bucket load of money before we came away to take French lessons. We went for 10 weeks once a week and played a cd in our cars every day. We were determined that when we got here we would be able to get by with at least a reasonable touch of French. Hmmm well not really. My first experience was in the Metro, fresh off the train from London, when we needed coins for the tickets. That was not a sentence we learnt, "Can I have coins please" nope not in the book, so she sends me to the bloody toilet for coins, ha ha. Well it hasn't gotten that much better, last night we decided we would get a bottle of bubbles and go sit on the river bank with the rest of the Paris population, seriously everyone under 35 is on the Seine all night long. Point there is that we are not under 35 so in the end we sat in the old people's hang the park at the side of the Notre Dame. Umm anyway back to the bad French. Adrian went and ordered a supreme pizza without egg. Yep you get a raw egg on most pizzas here watch out ha ha!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also ordered Calamari and Frittes (chips) now what did we get? We got Prawns and frittes and an onion pizza hahahahahah!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have decided that in France don't bothering ordering anything let them bring you what they want to, because they will anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did feel rather French though sitting there in the park drinking champagne (not real champers its too bloody expensive) and eating dinner.</span></div>
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<i>Park beside Notre Dame</i></div>
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<i>The girls have hidden something in this spot for a friend to find in 3 months</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some trivia for you, every afternoon here there is happy hour, from about 3 till around 8pm in most of the cafes, bistrots and restaurants. That means the drinks are a bit cheaper. Make the most of it if you don't want to buy a bottle and eat and drink at home. We had a really nice time an afternoon or 2 ago sitting on the footpath, everyone does here, eating a bit of tapas and enjoying a couple of mojitos, which by the way we later found out weren't included in the happy hour ha hahahahahaha!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also have come to the conclusion that the police here use their sirens and lights to get through the never ending snarl of traffic. We constantly hear sirens rushing to no where. The cars get through the lights and turn off their sirens and go on their way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so surprised by the number of young people who are out really late every night along the river bank. They all have some beer and wine, but there have been no fights or altercations at all that we have seen. We haven't even seen any teens really drunk, though I would assume they would be at least reasonably drunk just by way of the amount of time they have spent drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also here, we think the African population must have been here a generation or so more than in Australia. We see Bi racial couple everywhere, and mixed race children. The African community here is at restaurants and at work in businesses everywhere. Not like in Australia where they seem to mostly get work in the meat works of some form of labouring. I look forward to the day when I see that in Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also gay couples are openly together in Paris, men walking along holding hands, women cuddling in the park, very different to Toowoomba at least if not all of Australia. Paris is okay with everything, I long for the day when we can all accept each other, colours and preferences aside, how many generations will it take I wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paris is nice during the week when it is quieter, not so nice on the weekends, when it seems hoardes of visitors come to town. Paris is noisy, well noisier than Toowoomba, and it is the tourists that cause the chaos. I can imagine Paris without the visitors, it would be a wonderful place. I am ready to leave I feel though, it is exhausting. The trains are quite difficult, I found the tubes in London much easier to use. They eat and drink differently here and I am looking forward to a good coffee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you look up there are vapour trails all over the sky, people going somewhere, it makes me wonder where. It makes me want to leave a little trail in the sky and head home to my baby girls, my daughter and my bed. My twins are safe and sound in Canada and will be until at least May next year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as the days wind down and we prepare to head off in a few days to Amiens to see the Western Front, I hate to say it but I breathe a sigh of relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today Thursday 19th June we found ourselves alone, for the first time in 14 days, arghh!!!! Ha ha I am only laughing so I don't cry. It is a strange feeling when once again the house is crowded, the ipod is playing all the time, the jokes are flowing, the wine is flowing and there are young people around again. It is even stranger when they leave. After all my tears yesterday, and there were lots, I woke this morning hoping that I would be better able to cope today. Crazy really when the girls have already been gone for a year and I knew this would be the case, that they would leave again, but none the less it is difficult. But today my feet didn't hurt, for the first time in 3 weeks, I wasn't limping by the time I had walked maybe 20 minutes. Seriously, this has been an extraordinary experience with my feet. I bought shoes months ago to wear in and wear here and I wore them one day and could barely walk. So finally I was able to walk today for about 5 hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took a stroll to the Marais District today, the Jewish quarter of Paris, did you know about 76,000 French Jews were deported during the Nazi occupation of France in WW2? What an atrocity! There have been terrorist attacks on the Jewish Quarter in the past since the end of WW2 actually as recently as 1982 Palestinian gunmen threw grenades into a dining room in a restaurant and killed 6 people. But today it seems like life goes on, and in the fountain of one of the market places we found this thong oops who left that behind?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">African artifacts in the middle of Paris, there are so many Africans here, I met a man today from Sengali (I think) he really wanted Adrian and I to buy some African outfits for in the house he said, ha ha, they were great caftans, in those brilliant bright prints I see our friends at TRAMS wearing all the time. What a salesman!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The season for Fraise and berries is now and everywhere we see these beautiful berries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nuts, salted fish and other unknown foods for us tempt me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fresh seafood, Langoustines, and some sort of cockles, whatever you wanted was there even horse!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took a stroll to Place des Vosages, where Victor Hugo (Les Miserables, Hunch back of Notre Dame fame) lived before his exile and took a tour of his apartments and saw an exhibition of his work "The Man who Laughed", we both want to watch this when we get home. The Place Des Vosages is beautiful.The doors around the Place imposing and old, I love the mystery behind each one.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-51032150853189803822014-06-19T04:21:00.002+10:002014-06-19T04:21:46.780+10:00Dining and Crying in Paris Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week after catching up with Stuart and Darlene from the first European tour we took with Rick Steves in 2009, we all decided we would get together and cook a meal. So last night was the culmination of this little idea. We decided we would do the entree and dessert as it was easier for us with the great kitchen set up we have. Darlene and Stuart would do the main. Our first idea was to have the cauliflower puree we had learnt to cook at the cooking school and top it with seared scallops. But in true Parisian form the fishmonger we went to was well all I can say he was an arse. So after waiting quite a while, I stormed off in a huff and we had to come up with something else to top the puree with. AH ha duck we said and so it was. I have toi say it turned out beautifully and we all really enjoyed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuart brought shrimps (I know we say prawns but the Americans still say shrimp ha ha) and he cooked the beautifully along with delicious vegies. The vegetables were cooked in an apricot glaze and it was fabulous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ate some cheese before dessert as you do in Paris, actually to be totally Parisian we should have had the cheese after the entree and before the dessert with a little lettuce and some very mild dressing, go figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To end the meal we enjoyed, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries with a tangy cream, and some meringue crumbled in it, Oh my goodness that was nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a great night with our friends from Boise Idaho and hopefully we will squeeze in another get together before we leave next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning though was a very sad time, in fact all bloody day has been miserable. Except for a few short minutes at lunch, when we sat down next to some fellow Aussies and savoured the sound of our wonderful accents. That was a nice break in the otherwise sad day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today Ashleigh and Danielle went home to Canada and I want to swallow my tongue when I say they went home, but that's where they live now, it's where they have been for the past 12 months, long months for me, and it's where they will be for the next 12 months at least. We had a couple of teary discussions these past 2 weeks about the consequences of the decision to live so far away for so long. We three girls all cried together, talking about missing out on things like birthdays, Christmas and of course the new baby girl they haven't even held or touched yet. They miss Elle and Sophie, their sister and brother in law, their friends back home and of course us. But this is the life they want for this time and it is the hardest thing ever, to let them live it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today as we waved goodbye to them at the customs gate, and then I held on a little longer so they couldn't leave yet, and then we waved again and again until we couldn't see them anymore, I wanted to curl up into a ball and scream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sitting here now wishing I could fly home right this minute, I want to hold Elle and Sophie and Alicia and be in my own bed. I want something that feels real instead of like some crazy never ending holiday. I like Paris, not as much as I thought I would, I really struggle with talking to people and that is a big part of me, I talk to everyone, everywhere. Here I can't do that. I want Ash and Nelly to come back to Toowoomba, not Brisbane or Melbourne or Sydney. I hope that over the next few days this all settles down, I do, but right now I am a blubbering mess and I just want my girls back.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-80099426172269645852014-06-17T01:22:00.002+10:002014-06-17T01:22:39.078+10:00I'lle St. Louis and drinks on the banks of the Seine Day 5 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we had no plans after an attempt to catch up with an Aussie living here fell through, so we just wandered. We are not far from a place called Oz Cafe, a chain of pubs over here, Adrian wanted to find out if they would be playing the State of Origin on Wednesday, ha ha seriously, here we are in Paris and what's on his mind...... the second game of State of Origin, ha ha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The apartment above is on the banks of the Seine and covers two floors we think, with a roof garden ooh la la.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sitting on the banks of the Seine, everyone does it, these girls were drinking water, ha ha, next to them were a small group drinking wine, it's quite acceptable out in public anywhere here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting sa decent group photo for our family as anyone who knows us knows, is a difficult job, proven by these photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am still amazed by the way the incredible architecture and beauty of these old cities, London and Paris, seem to be taken for granted by the locals. I guess where ever we live is home and we expect and accept what is around us every day. Today is Monday and many of the larger stores don't open, actually I am surprised by the number of shops that are open today, we expected to have very few open at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The signs here and in Germany as I remember are great. I love the creativity of the people and the age of the stores here. This was a cookie store, like the Aussie Cookie Man stores, how cute.</span></div>
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<br />A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-42753196441263684502014-06-16T02:14:00.000+10:002014-06-16T02:14:11.628+10:00Montparnasse Tower Day 4 Paris <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we woke at about 9 am, breakfast at 10ish and then we took the metro to Montparnasse Bienvennue to go up the Montparnasse Tower. I was a bit concerned it would be packed, it has the most incredible view of the city of Paris. If you ever get here, it is certainly worth a visit. Approx $13e and no queues, unlike the Eiffel. The ease of wandering around on the 56th floor, which you get to in 38secs in the lift is wonderful. Interactive computer screens give information about all the buildings you can see. You then walk 3 flights of stairs to the 59th floor, which has a champagne bar and for $12e you can enjoy a glass of bubbles as you take in the view from here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is amazing to see the roof top gardens and the little courtyards in between the buildings. This is such a different lifestyle to our huge blocks at home. So many apartments everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shuttered windows to keep the cold in winter and the noise out I would guess. Here where we are our windows open on to a very busy maze of streets. Late at night tourists and local alike can be heard partying down stairs in the street. Last night some of the Lebanese community decided to have a street party, turn up the radios in their cars and dance in the street. Adrian and I slept through that, unfortunately Ashleigh and Danielle did not. It's all a part of what living in the heart of Paris is about. Today in the Montparnasse district though you got a better sense of what it would feel like to live locally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sat after our Metro ride, our tour to the top of Paris and our walk through the true artist market we stumbled upon at the foot of the tower, and had a cappucino and creme brulee, we felt like this was a real little bit of Paris.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-12249215561493075152014-06-15T19:12:00.001+10:002014-06-15T19:12:53.332+10:00Tour Eiffel and The Trocaderro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our 3rd full day in Paris was spent wandering around the Tour Eiffel and the Trocadero. We aren't early risers at the moment, I guess eating dinner at 9 or 10 at night and then roaming over to the Notre Dame to watch the fire twirlers and roller bladers, the young people hanging out along the banks of the Seine, and all the other late night attractions, isn't helping. Most nights it is after midnight before we put our heads down. The twilight lasts till nearly 10 every night and it is hard to eat dinner at 6 or 7 when it feels like midday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have all been to the Tour Eiffel before, not together though, so as you do when you are in Paris we went again. We had tried to book tickets to go up the tower some months ago, but they were booked out. The queues today were long and I am happy not to have gone up again. You can obviously still go up the tower even if the online booking says it is booked out. We headed over to the Trocadero for a better look at the tower. It really is the best view of all. From close to the tower you are literally surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of people. The photos are really hard to get, we actually had an old Italian photo bomber do some bombing of our shots. Ha ha cheeky bugger. From the Trocaderi you get a brilliant view of the entire tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The BB's(bad boys) are out in droves, hawking there tinny gold and silver Eiffel Tower key rings and models. They are there in the dozens, 5 for $1E they say rattling the dozens of trinkets at you, just walk on by. The gypsies are out near the tourist attractions, the girls with their clipboards and a piece of paper they want you to sign. They are rats, sorry but they try and shove the board in your face and apparently while you are distracted by the board someone else will try and pickpocket you. I growl at them, they don't like it and leave. Then there are the men with the three up turned silver cups and the ball underneath. They have 3, 4 even 5 off siders making bids on where the little ball will be when they have finished shuffling. The make it look like they are winning and con you into having a try, of course you will not win. We saw a tourist yesterday lose $50e seriously what a dill. They take off like scalded cats when the police come. It's actually fun to watch, and we have not been bothered by them. We actually don't spend much time at the tourist places so haven't been troubled at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tips for travel in France:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. You will need coins or be prepared to use your credit card for tickets on the metro. So if you are arriving for the first time have about $10e in coins on you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Nothing opens much before 9am, the boulangerie and Patisserie may be but that's about it. The markets (marche) wont be open for milk etc till near 9am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. The pharmacie may not be open on a Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Wine in a restaurant will be on average $20e.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Read the prices on the menu board before you go in if possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. A beer in a nice restaurant will cost approx $12.50 ask Adrian he found that one out himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. $12.50e is about $18 be warned hahaha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Wear socks with your walking shoes not stockings, my feet coped much better yesterday with socks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Go wandering at night so much happens when the sun finally does go down.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-5299416896409665262014-06-14T03:11:00.000+10:002014-06-14T03:11:10.104+10:00Day 2 in Paris - La Cuisine Paris and Jardins des Tuileries <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning we walked to Monge Place to meet with our chef from<a href="http://lacuisineparis.fr/" target="_blank"> La Cuisine Paris</a>. Emily and Brittany then took us for a walk through the local market place and explained how to choose the cheese, meat, vegetables and fruit for the meal we would then make. I love the French food markets, the smells and the colours are amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were making clafouti with apricots and cherries for desert. Duck breast with peppercorn cream sauce, pureed cauliflower (OMG that was amazing),glazed turnips, and roasted carrots, radish and baby onions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We each prepared our own desert, then shared the preparation of the rest of the meal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I know you want to see the finished dinner but I forgot to take a photograph in my eagerness to devour it oops!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then off to the Jardins de Tuileries, crowded a long walk from the cooking school and hot. The temperature here is much more than I thought it would be. My feet are still sore, I am struggling a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day one of our time in Paris found us wandering around from shoe store to shoe store trying to find Birkenstocks, I thought this would be the solution to my blister problem. We went to the address that was supposed to stock Birks and no they didn't, it was a rather classy men's store, so we went from store to store until I found what hopefully will be a more comfortable pair of shoes. Then over the Pont de L'Archeveche for a look at all the love locks, OMG there are thousands of them. And recently one of the panels on one of the bridges was so weighted down it fell off into the Seine River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a lot of talk at the moment about whether this tradition should be allowed to continue, honestly I just think it looks tacky and I think once again for the locals, it must be so annoying that tourists come through and continue to add to this mess. Anyway lets see how things go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walking to the Jewish Deportation Site behind the Notre Dame there is a splash of colour and a little touch of nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night the girls and I had dinner, and walked over to the Notre Dame very late, we sat and talked and watched rats, yep rats, bloody big ones scurry across the pathways. Eeeww!!!!! The would run out to the puddle in the middle of the paths, have a drink and scurry back. Obvious to me now why the made the film Ratatouille be set in Paris, there really is a world of rats out there.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-13800229227196098482014-06-12T17:26:00.001+10:002014-06-12T17:26:22.594+10:00On The Road Again - London to Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We left London this morning from St. Pancras Station and made our way via the TGV to Gare De Nord Paris. 2 hours on the train it was quite comfortable, a small bottle of champagne cost $22gbp because it was champagne, not sparkling wine. The country side rolled past and then throiugh the chunnel and out the other side and Bonjour we were in France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So was it the easy 5 minute walk from St. Michael station to our apartment, that Alexandre our landlord said it would be, what do you think!!!!!! About 45 mins later we found the apartment and poor Alex had been waiting outside the whole time. Wrong way Feldsman had done it again. It is actually 5 mins if you leave the metro from the correct exit, which one is that you ask we still don't know. So I imagine we will be lost every time we leave the apartment. Oh and that is a task in itself, we are on the 3rd floor no lift this time and lots and lots of winding stairs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our apartment is amazing huge open space in the living area and a view to Notre Dame yep we see the tower from our living room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My feet are giving me grief though, I am in serious pain. Blisters from shoes that I have been wearing for weeks at home no problems, and they have gotten really nasty. Adrian had to buy me some antiseptic stuff last night and I didn't leave the apartment last night, we ate chinese take away instead of going to one of the dozens of restaurants down stairs. I am really annoyed by the whole thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as I sit here this morning looking out our window onto Rue Galande I bid you adiou or however you spell it,</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-39210623719583470582014-06-11T16:36:00.000+10:002014-06-11T16:36:03.207+10:00Oh We Had A Lovely Day The Day We Went To Brighton - Day 10 London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our last day in London was spent riding the FCC to Brighton for a day at the beach. I wanted to visit a British beach. I had seen the pictures of those rocky shore lines and I wanted to see for myself, well it was everything I expected and then some. I loved it. I loved Bath a few years back and the Cottswolds and I loved Brighton. Where the Royals to holiday, she is a little worse for wear now. The buildings all showing signs of age. Rusty trails on most of the facades and somehow, everything is just a little tired. The pier is brilliant, the music from yesteryear playing as you walk along it. Oh and those rocks well take a look for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no such thing as a quiet moment on the beach, the noise is amazing, these rocks crunch together and seriously you could turn an ankle walking along this shoreline. Ha ha it was a hard slog just walking the little bit we did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the way in England they leave the old buildings, it really is a trip back in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Royal Pavillion is rather beautiful, a strange mix of Indian architecture in the midst of the old English surrounds. The grounds are beautiful and very busy in the summer. I will say I have never seen such blatant displays of public sleeping as I have here. In the parks, on the buses and in the tubes, people just sleep. Me oh my goodness, I hate sleeping in public, even in front of family, the mouth flops open the soft puffs of air come out and everyone is laughing their heads off. But not here, I have nearly tripped over young men fast asleep in their suits at lunch time, sprawled out in the sunshine on the grass. It amazes me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this morning as I sit about to get ready to head off to Paris what are my travel tips for a week in London.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Wear in every pair of shoes you are going to bring my feet have been a major hassle this week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Definitely catch the underground from Heathrow for $3 or $4 gbp its the cheapest way from the airport to town.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Try the buses instead of the tube, you see so much more and one day just hop on one and go to the end of the line. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Get of said bus once you hit the traffic, that's when the tube saves time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Read the signs for the tubes, some stops aren't always accessible they are doing a lot of maintenance and you will be backtracking and swapping trains a lot if you don't. Been there done that, got the I am lost on the tube t shirt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Eat at Steak & Co in Leicester Square it's brilliant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Bring a brolly, you never know when it is going to rain and those brolly's cost a fortune when it does.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Do the boat ride to Greenwich, it's fun. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Have a blast</span><br />
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-45282618430408683282014-06-10T03:50:00.000+10:002014-06-10T03:50:17.829+10:00London Day 9 - Abbey Road and Portobello Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we set out for Abbey Road, we thought we would all go together, but the girls are meeting Ben a friend from their first time in England. So Adrian and I headed out and I was surprised how busy this spot is. When we first arrived we were about the only one there, a few minutes later a tour came and OMG people are so bloody rude. Tourists seem to think they can just ignore any laws that are set so they can get a freakin picture seriously!!!! Get a grip people!@! The picture above is one with the least traffice being held up so dozens of people can get their bloody photo taken crossing a zebra crossing. Rude Rude Rude and who are most of them Italian and Americans of course!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adrian did his walk of fame, but did not disrupt the traffic TRULY!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we travel I try and consider the locals who live there and have to put up with us visitors on a daily basis. The tourists I saw today were disgraceful, standing in the middle of the road just to get a picture that they think looks like a picture taken many years ago, to me it's just plain rude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next on to Portobello Road, which today is approachable. On Saturdays, you can not swing a cat here, been there done that, not going back for more. Today Monday it was nice to stroll down the streets, see the stores, see the wares and enjoy the lovely setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then with very weary bodies and very tired feet, we headed to the wine bar at the end of our street, Gordon's Wine bar is apparently the oldest wine bar/cave in London. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are older pubs but Gordon's sells only wines and fortified wines/ports. It sits along side the Victoria Embankment Gardens. </span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-37424684246828318832014-06-09T18:01:00.000+10:002014-06-09T18:01:06.090+10:00Greenwich the time is right London Day 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 8 and we went our seperate ways, the girls didn't want to take the boat up the river to Greenwich, boat rides are boring, the river is boring, I hate to admit the little ferry we took to Camden Town was a bit dull. A huge contrast to the City Cruise boat we took to Greenwich today. The captain does a commentary as you glide up the Thames and it is wonderful. From the river the Houses of Parliament look prettier than ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's this strange picture of you ask, well tucked in behind this clump of trees is our street, really a few minutes to the river. York Buildings is the name of the street and Carlton Mansions is the building name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The parks in London are beautiful, we have beautiful parks back home, but we don't use them kike the Brits do here. Every park is brimming with people, families enjoying the day out and the incredible weather. People sleep on the grass, back home you'd be woken up and probably chucked in the clink ha ha. We wandered around Greenwich, had some Mexican for lunch and an icy Margarita to end with. Another nice boat ride home, with a real comedian giving the run down and some home made Spag Bol for dinner. The girls staggered in with some Prosecco ate and went out again. London from a different perspective I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We of course went to the wrong street, instead of Green, oh well we have come to expect chaos and confusion when we head out on our daily trips. Eventually we got to the restaurant and were welcomed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had to choose from either a fish/seafood, meat, vegetarian or surprise menu. We all chose the 3 course meat menu. Then you are led by a blind waiter into a pitch black room. We had a share table, which meant that next to us at a long table sat another group of 4. So we are sat down and the adventure begins. This is seriously black, like in a cave under the ground, no light at all. Your eyes do not become accustomed to the light, there is none. The waiter brings the first course, you fumble around for your cutlery and try to find something on the plate to stab with your fork. When you do find something and you start jabbing it seems to move on the plate. Suddenly it isn't where it was a minute ago. You start to think should I use my fingers????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Main comes and once again you firstly have no idea what it is and secondly you now have to find it on the plate. By the time I had finished my plate, everything was mooshed together. I could taste, rice, I thought maybe a rissotto, I could taste mushrooms and some steak, and some cinnamon or other spice. It was delicious, but confusing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desert was next and yes we used our fingers. It was so yummy, and we knew we had jelly on that plate somewhere, it was like a guessing game. Where did you say that jelly was Ash, on the bottom left hand side, ahh not on my plate. Then there is the trick of pouring the wine and water in the dark. Everyone had a finger stuck in their drink ha ha. It was an amazing experience and it really brought home to all of us just how difficult it is to not be able to see. How awkard it is to eat out without sight. If you ever get to experience a <a href="http://london.danslenoir.com/" target="_blank">Dans Le Noir</a> restaurant it is well worth it. </span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-41570301805297859882014-06-08T06:57:00.000+10:002014-06-08T06:57:15.165+10:00London Day 6 - Cruise to Camden and Jack the Ripper Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 6 began with a walk to Piccadilly to catch the bus to Warwick Ave to take the London Water bus to Camden Town. Not exactly what we thought it would be, it would have been better to take a ferry with commentary, but then again there wasn't that much to comment on either. The Camden Horse Stable markets were chockers as usual and I love the diversity of the place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a drink at the Worlds End Pub, we had seen it 4 years ago, but hadn't gone in so it was the reason we went this time, that and the movie that was out recently. Another disappointment, ha ha. So back to Leicester Square and lunch at the Brewmaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jack the Ripper London Walk to end the day, and it was interesting, but we didn't actually go to many of the sites of the murders, I know I am a bit gruesome, ending in Spitalfiefds markets, we headed to Brick Lane for some of that famous Indian food. The restaurant was packed and we ate Bangladeshian Indian, it did taste different to what we get at home. Had a great night, fell into bed exhausted.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-70681565312667477992014-06-06T15:02:00.001+10:002014-06-06T15:02:26.953+10:00London Day 5 - They have arrived<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plan was delayed for 2 hours on the tarmac, but they made up time and finally the girls have arrived from Canada via Seattle. They have regaled us with tales of ski jumps, and being hit by a ski lift chair, more tales of bears, black and brown and grizzly. I don't think they will be home anytime soon, the world is too small a place these days, it's so easy to get from here to there and there is so much to see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after a quick shower, we all headed out for dinner. We had a drink at the Porcupine, as you do in London, I love the names of the pubs here. Then dinner in China Town at the Young Cheng Restaurant. It was pretty good, we were all very hungry. The waitress did her best to impress Adrian, and called me honey, it was a laugh. Plans for day 6 for us are to wander around South Bank, and then tonight do the Knightsbridge Pubs walk. Knightsbridge is where Harrods is located and this London Walk takes in some of the back lanes that we would probably never find ourselves. It's quite an upmarket area so it should be interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are on our second $20 load of the oyster card, and we've been taking the buses a lot more this time round. There is so much more to see that way, but the traffic is horrendous and it can take ages to get anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is a dutch themed cottage in Green Park, just near the original entrance to Buckinham Palace. I just had to get a little shot of it, the other day when we were catching up with Lizzie. Everything is so quaint, old, pretty, English.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-59665262998721669322014-06-05T01:14:00.002+10:002014-06-05T01:14:39.610+10:00I Saw The Queen - Day 4 London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we got to see the Queen. She came to open Parliament and the ceremony was fantastic. We literally were in the front row, I expected it would be packed but no, it was a bit rainy this morning and I think that may have scared some people off. The locals are probably sick to death of the road closures and traffic disruptions, me well I was beside myself. I loved it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stumbled upon this laneway and a school group was there, so my ears pricked and apparently this woman was painted by a guy from Melbourne. I really love grafitti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a quick spin through the Spitalfields Markets, had dinner at an old pub called The Gun. We stood beside 2 other Aussie couples watching the parade and there was another Aussie couple in the pub. Seriously is there anyone left in Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far we have used $20 on our tube and bus tickets, I have an enormous on my little toe, I found out the Retro Bar up the street is a gay bar, they had the coolest looking Drag Queen in there last night, I have to go check it out sometime. So many people here smoke and there is gum all over the footpaths, so much gum. The girls arrive tomorrow, pretty excited about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh and squirrels, it's a dead giveaway we are tourists when I get so excited about taking a picture of a squirrel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parades, flags, an old pub, and squirrels, it just doesn't get any better than this ha ha. Until tomorrow.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-24364217692473769092014-06-04T02:13:00.001+10:002014-06-04T02:13:49.674+10:00London Day 3 - Acton Green on a rainy day<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today no photo for the blog, simply because the internet at the apartment is playing up an I have the only pic I took today on my tiny lap top and not my I Pad. I guess I could take a picture of the blister on my little toe, would you like that? Nah let's not hey!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was raining this morning, so we skipped our meeting with Liz, and took a stroll to the SNCF office to get new tickets from Amiens to home later this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hopped on the 94 bus, finally we have mastered the bus system over here. Oh for a system like they have here at home really, the best transport system ever. Even with the delays, breakdowns,closures and the bloody, bloody traffic it is better than the non existent system we have at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For $1.45 we went from Regent Street near Picadilly all the way to Acton Green, about an hour I guess. In the traffic in the city it was frustrating. It it was so nice to sit on the upper level of the bus at the very front and just watch the suburbs change. Like our very own private tour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended up in Covent Garden for lunch and I found a beautiful pressie for Elle, surprise!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lunch of chorizo and pork ragu and a glass of Merlot ended the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We missed the London Walk we wanted to take due to the traffic, no problems. And I'm looking forward to a long hot bath. </span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-49199853241741050152014-06-03T03:03:00.000+10:002014-06-03T03:03:05.783+10:00London Day 2 - Tower of London, Harrods and yes we walked<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we planned to change our tickets with SNCF to Amiens and return to CDG airport, it wasn't to be. Oh well plans are made to be changed aren't they? One piece of advice if you are travelling to London, be prepared to have the best plans that involve travel on the Tube to changed at a finger snap. This morning we had planned to go to Tower Hill station from Knightsbridge and oops the bloody signals are out so that flew out the bloody window. We had been to Harrods to buy the baby angels a few little bits and bobs and that wasn't to be either. We did stumble upon Sloane Square and we wandered round Belgrave. Ha ha Chelsea, quite a nice area actually. I love these little parks, commons whatever they are called that are little bits of peace and quiet in the midst of the hustle and bustle. Did you see Notting Hill? Do you remember the little park that Hugh scaled the fence to get into? That's what I like, they are all around the place. Really lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the London skyline, it's cloudy today and it suits my thoughts of London, I love the old and then the new, side by side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the Shard, and right beside the towers of the Tower of London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tower Bridge. I believe that people still live in the Bridge, does anyone know otherwise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Katherine's Docks, beside the Tower Bridge, a lovely place for lunch. I was hungry, my feet were tired and sore. I really needed a nice drink and some nice food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Slug and Lettuce won us over. 50% off on Mondays, some nice outdoor seating, a lovely bottle of Italian Prosseco and I was happy. The battered fish was a little tasteless and we found this same thingl ast time we were here in 2010. I think we are very spoilt in Australia, the best seafood ever at our doorstep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">London traffic amazes me! As we sat waiting for a bus, the Number 15 from Trafalgar to Tower Bridge I noticed a truck driver eating a curry with a fork while driving. Another texting on his phone with both hands, who was driving that car? A truck driver abusing an office worker while driving through a red light ha ha!! No one worries about the green and red stop go men on the lights, it's like there is a break in the traffic EVERYONE RUN!!!! Ha ha we'd all be locked up at home for J walking love it!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we have a new plan of attack, wake up, walk in the quiet time before the workers appear and home for brekky. Planning some more good things and then the girls come. I cannot wait. </span></div>
A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-14528901065329353682014-06-02T15:32:00.001+10:002014-06-02T15:32:10.557+10:00London Day 1 Part 2 - Little Venice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Venice, named for the architecture that is found here, and of course for the canal system. Absolutely gorgeous, a leafy very upmarket area, once housed the major red light district, now houses here sell for the millions in fact about 2 years ago a 7 bedroom, 7 bathroom home here sold for wait for it $28 million. Yep, in in this area you are rubbing shoulders with everyone, from Sid Viscous to Lu Lu, Richard Branson started his business here from a large grey house boat that is still moored here and is now where his son sometimes stays. What a lovely walk to take, <a href="http://londonwalks.com/" target="_blank">London Walks</a> the company we did this walk with does some really great walks round London. For $9GBP you get an amazing guide and 1.5 hours of walking fun. I really recommend this company we have done several walks with them now and have loved each one. We had a drink and something to eat at Gordon's Wine Bar which is the bar that was filled to over flowing when we arrived. Must be the place to be seen, seats were a hot commodity,the food ordinary and the wine delish. Sat next to some East Londoners showing their American friends around. Sad to say they are not happy with the amount of immigration happening here in London. I guess there is this narrow mindedness everywhere. I must say I was surprised by the number of Middle Eastern people who must hold UK/EU passports at that airport, they were going through the UK/EU passport gates, hundreds of them. The world is really a very small place now. There is good and bad in that I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today it is raining (it's day 2 and I am doing an early morning Blog catch up), we are off to Harrods to spoil our baby girls, and then a wander round Soho, Mayfair wherever really. Think of my feet won't you.</span></div>
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A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-71378724642989268162014-06-01T20:59:00.001+10:002014-06-01T20:59:12.201+10:00Day 1 - London Calling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally we arrived, exhausted after nearly 36 hours of travel time. This is our apartment for the next 11 days. Talk about location, location, location. Directly across the road from us is a bar and grill that was heaving when we arrived with 2 suitcases and a carry on dragging behind us yesterday arvo. I just wanted, bed, wine, food, bed, bed and here were all these 20 somethings partying on like no ones business. Made me feel oh so old. Anyway we will hit that place at some point belive me. All I could think was the girls are going to love this area. We are on the third floor of the Carlton Mansions in the York Buildings, right across the road almost from Charring Cross Station love London really I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also along the river, obviously they live large in London on Saturday nights. We took a bus to Kensington, of course we got off a mile from where we wanted to be, which was the Kensington High Street, so we roamed again, half the fun really. We were heading for the Whole Foods Market in the high street. Ended up in Kengsinton Gardens, didn't see Will, Kate or baby George, it was early Sunday morning though, maybe another time. Oh and just a note Sunday trading in London is dreadful. The Whole Foods store and most others don't open till 12 noon, I though Australia was backwards, go figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big Ben, and Buckingham Palace are a stones throw away and it is the Queens Birthday celebrations in 2 weeks so the flags are out and ready. This afternoon we are off to London's Little Venice, right now resting my weary feet. I have heard a few more British accents this time round, but there are so many languages to be heard here. So many different skins, so many people, buses, cars, you know you are alive when you are in London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well how things go, sometimes, not as we plan, it has been 7 months since I was here last. I forgot even my password, shame hey!! But life has taken over and as I wandered this morning through the blogs of friends I see some also have gone. To blog takes time, to share takes time, and my life has taken another direction and that takes all my time. So first for those that remember here is the beautiful Elle, so grown now isn't she. She will be 3 on August 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a morning at the zoo she had tales to tell. Feeding the deer, watching the monkeys, tigers and lions, the snakes and the beautiful birds, such precious time with her, that we love so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And surprise, another little precious girl has come into our lives. I introduce you to Sophie Grace, so beautiful. Born 28 May a joy for us all. Her aunties are in Canada, for 2 years, they left a week before she was born. They will miss her I know and we miss them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The food plan I am following this year is the Primal Blue Print, by Mark Sisson, we don't eat any grains, oils like soy, canola etc, only coconut, olive, nut oils, are you getting the picture. We don't eat wheat or sugar and we eat a lot of bacon, eggs, fish, meat, fowl, vegetables, fruits, nuts and fats. So I decided I would have a go at making a Paleo/Primal mayo. The making wasn't so bad, the ingredients I chose were the problem. The coconut oil was fine, the eggs home grown, the mistake was the garlic infused olive oil, oh my goodness I wanted to gag. Way to strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I looks beautiful, golden and creamy, it's in the bin oh yuk. Next time I'll use a very light subtly flavoured olive oil. Success is in my grasp.</span></div>
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<br />A Box of Chocolateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06305220579732409554noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257722839287993870.post-49054404281579721922013-01-05T13:06:00.001+10:002013-01-05T13:06:39.769+10:002013 YOU ARE MINE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 is my year, my year to change the bad habits of the past 3 or 4 years and make new one. My year to change thought patterns and think on new and more positive things. My year to get new skinny clothes and that's why I've purged my wardrobe and made you for the new, as they say out with the old in with the new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to follow me on my journey go over here <a href="http://fromfattofree.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">From Fat to Free</a>, this is my weight loss journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well hello there everyone and a very merry Christmas to you all. This year has been so very busy for me. It's the first time in years that I have been working up to Christmas, and I hate to admit it I am not as organised as I used to think I was. I guess it's easy to be organised when you don't work and have ample time to fit everything in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But finally the tree is decorated, the food bought the gifts wrapped and the food under way. This year we will have a Christmas Eve celebration. That isn't the way over here in Australia. Here we do Christmas on Christmas Day. We are usually preparing on Christmas Eve, either travelling to friends and family or greeting them as they arrive. But we are now among the many who have to share our daughters with other families. Alicia of course has to spend some time with Paul's family so this year, she will come to us on Christmas Eve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of course once again the girls true to form, gave me their best shots, at a recent cousins lunch. Really girls!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to you and all of your families, I wish you a very merry Christmas and a brilliant 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love to you all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kim</span></div>
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