" an aussie in paris"

FINALLY.


a new update.


yes i have been very slack but i have been very busy......
ive worked slept worked slept worked slept.

ive had a birthday

a trip to paris

a trip to israel.


so i will share a few photos of the paris trip first because that is what i did first.

for my birthday me and five guys from work went on the eurostar to paris. (only for one night)

we went out drinking quite heavily the night before and one of us didnt even make it to the train station........

we were BUGGERED from having no sleep but the excitement of being in the new city was enough to keep me awake.

you will see from the photos that sebastian my flatmate had already been to paris and as such- was just TIRED.

ok so from left to right we have Antek ( polish), Owen ( aussie ), Anthony (french), Sabastian( polish) , and Alessandro ( we call him alex- he is italian)

this was the new five amigos adn we set off in a hung over mad dash to cover as much of paris as we could in 24 hours........

the following mayhen ensued....

this is of course, Notre Damme Cathedral.

yeah yeah, i went inside a church for the first time in i diont remember HOW many years. And coincidently, it was sunday so they were having mass. we arrived just in time as the priest and the alter boys made thier grand entrance into the church. it was a really beautiful gothis building and you can go up inside it to the roof and stuff but we were on a budget in rgards to both out money and time so it was just a mad dash in and out really....

here we are on the very beautiful river Seine. it was a awesome day with the weather, about 31 degrees. very unusaul to see such a blue sky in london. when i jumped up on the bridge to get this photo taken i smashed my knee in to the concrete and it really hurt and i am wincing through the smile. below is a highway that kinda freaked me out a little because i didnt want to fall. below is a photo of me in the middle of the lourve- the worlds biggist art gallery/meusum. its where they keep the mona lisa and famous for th eda vinci code now too. i took some better photos of antek and anthony there than this one. ( i'll post them below soon)

o.k so around this time in the afternoon we had started to all get a bit tired and had a little nap by this pond right in between the lourve and the eiffel tower. i thought it'd make a great shot of us all sleeping in the sun in line and got a stranger to take this photo but she nearly fell in the pond wioth my camera so i couldnt quite relax and pretend i was asleep.

i still love the photo anyway.

this is of course the Arc De Trumph. which translates as "the Arc of Triupmph". i think it was built by Napolean to celebrate thier war victories. all over paris you can see these "N" everywhere- they are from crazy mad napolean stamping his name all over the place! Once again you can climb to the top of this and see a view from all over paris but we didn't. as you can see as well the sun was starting to set ands so were our eyes. this is also the worlds largest roundabout with something like 13 roads all converging on this point. MAD

"Dinner is served" you cant go to paris and not have escargot no?

so yeah i ate snails and yeah they taste like shit. the trick with them is to cover them in a really aromiatic beautifull sauce - i chose the pesto and garlic flavoured ones- so you dont taste too much of the snails. its a bit like killpatric oysters i guess.

anyway that concludes Day 1 of paris.

xO