Bon Jour! We've been so busy travelling we haven't had time to blog. The rest of Bali and Singapore went by in a sweaty blur and now we are in Paris. It is a big change from wearing a swimsuit and boardshorts all day. Now we are in beanies, jeans and jumpers. I've discovered as the French already know, that even polar fleece looks chicer if you add a scarf.Since we arrived, we've been doing the usual. Walking through gardens, visiting museums (that's me in front of one Monet's water lily paintings at the Musee D'Orangerie - the first time these massive canvases have been brought together from various owners), gasping at restaurant menu prices, eating cheese and drinking ridiculously cheap red wine. We are staying in a lovely sunny little studio apartment on the left bank, directly across the road from the Natural History museum, with a surreal view straight into their grand hall filled with dinosaur skeletons! Amazing. Since we can cook (and save having a coronary every day over the food budget), we have been shopping for provisions. I loaded a massive round of camembert and a hefty log of goats cheese as Miles looked on in horror. "Are you sure we need all that cheese?" I said, "All that cost about $5!!! When else will you be able to afford to eat French cheese with such abandon?" Later, as we fell into a jet lagged stupor, ambulances rushed past to the nearby hospital. "Must be someone else who ate too much cheese" I mumbled blearily. Surely we'll need the cheese ambulance too after 6 days here. Next stop, Sicily. We'll tell you all about it if the mafia doesn't put us into cement shoes first.
LOL.
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