Man, trying to think of titles for these things is hard.... normally I leave the subject heading blank so that the bulk of the email/post/thing is like a secret and then you read it and wham, your hit by the stunning simplicity and wittyness of my writing.
Can you tell I'm drinking at the moment?
Actually, just had my first Fosters. Apparently its ok to drink overseas - although I never really saw it in any bars back home so never had a chance to try it before. It's a girly beer, which is ok since I'm a girl.
Been wandering around Glasgow and it's an interesting place - one street looks gorgeous and then you turn a corner and there are gangs of 12 year old boys running madly down the road, down another street and there is a 5 minute parade of taxies decorated with balloons and then you hit the main shopping drag... actually, it's starting to grow on me, people seem much friendlier here than London and then there's the accent (the girls will know what I mean :o)
However, it is summer (apparently) and I dont think i'll ever be taking off a jumper...
I've been offered a contract at the science centre here doing gallery/outreach stuff - just waiting for an email so have been ringing people to look at flats... got a few to check tonight. Hopefuly I can find something before the weekend - then I'm planning to head off to Edinburgh to visit a friend I met while travelling. Back to London in a few weeks to celebrate my official disqualification from youth discounts (26 is apparently too old. 25 is still a youth in Europe... goodbye free museum entries and cheap transport) and then THE festival is on in August. YAY.
Missing everyone. Will have Skype up and running next week so I'll set up a lottery and ring people at random times, pretending I have no idea what the time is back home (he he he) - maybe I'll start with Ally who is probably up all night with Thomas anyway (hope it's all going well, send me photos!)
Choos.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Paris and beyond
Well, after loving Barcelona I wasn't sure what I'd think of Paris... two very different cities in a lot of ways (well thats what I would have assumed anyway, yet to really decide if thats true or not, to some extent - in the words of Paul Kelly - 'every fucking city's just the same')
But I had one of those great moments when you realise where you are and how bloody cool it is that I am able to do what I'm doing... just sitting in a train station, having a coffee and a croissant and watching the destination board clacking through all these places... not sure why, was very happy about being there at that point. And I love the old fashioned traintable, the ones that clack as they rotate around... they're much more satisfying for some reason than electronic lights or voices.
Met a wonderful woman yesterday at Notre Dame - she's a volunteer explainer there and after the others all left, she asked if I wanted to see another church she'd talked about so I said sure. Then she showed me a whole heap of cool things, like the hotel that Mozart stayed in and the oldest house in Paris. And she showed me how to find the most famous ice-cream store in Paris. Hooray!
Then I had one of the best dinners I've had in Europe in a cafe by the side of the road. I will try to reserve judgement on Parisian food until I've had a few more meals (maybe it was a fluke) but its damn promising :o)
So I guess to sum up, am enjoying Paris. Even though its raining (just like in the Hunter Valley, although not so many emergency beer drops here), its still pretty nice. Tonight I get free entry to the Louvre and then I think I'll jump on a night boat and then head out to the bars in the Latin Quarter, which I found yesterday and is a cool little maze of cafes, turkish/italian restaurants and bookstores. Reading 'Canidide' because I figured I should read something vaguely relevant to the country... it's actually quite funny (still think Voltaire was a grade-A dickhead but anyway...)
Love you long time
But I had one of those great moments when you realise where you are and how bloody cool it is that I am able to do what I'm doing... just sitting in a train station, having a coffee and a croissant and watching the destination board clacking through all these places... not sure why, was very happy about being there at that point. And I love the old fashioned traintable, the ones that clack as they rotate around... they're much more satisfying for some reason than electronic lights or voices.
Met a wonderful woman yesterday at Notre Dame - she's a volunteer explainer there and after the others all left, she asked if I wanted to see another church she'd talked about so I said sure. Then she showed me a whole heap of cool things, like the hotel that Mozart stayed in and the oldest house in Paris. And she showed me how to find the most famous ice-cream store in Paris. Hooray!
Then I had one of the best dinners I've had in Europe in a cafe by the side of the road. I will try to reserve judgement on Parisian food until I've had a few more meals (maybe it was a fluke) but its damn promising :o)
So I guess to sum up, am enjoying Paris. Even though its raining (just like in the Hunter Valley, although not so many emergency beer drops here), its still pretty nice. Tonight I get free entry to the Louvre and then I think I'll jump on a night boat and then head out to the bars in the Latin Quarter, which I found yesterday and is a cool little maze of cafes, turkish/italian restaurants and bookstores. Reading 'Canidide' because I figured I should read something vaguely relevant to the country... it's actually quite funny (still think Voltaire was a grade-A dickhead but anyway...)
Love you long time
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