Got up early to get the 8.20 train out of Toulouse (this time with our backpacks!) as well as recheck the Japanese Garden we had looked around the first evening (I had been very hungry and grumpy and CC hadn’t enjoyed it enough and wanted to go back). Very pretty and we got some hideously […]
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Day 7: CARCASSONNE!!!
Reasons I wanted to go to Carcassonne: the board game Carcassonne. I first played it in my early teens which was nearly ten years ago! The main game I played with my friends for years on end. When, some years back, I realised there actually exists a town called Carcassonne, I decided I HAVE to […]
Day 6: From the North to the South…
…of France. Lille-Toulouse, via Paris. 5½ hours from Paris Montparnasse-station to Toulouse, I got bored after 2½. CC happily made friends with the little restless girl opposite (the one singing Gangnam Style) whilst I made a decision never to have children. Got to Toulouse at six in the evening. Tbf, I wasn’t impressed. The route […]
Day 5: Let’s do some travelling!
(Written earlier this afternoon) Hello from a TGV train towards TOULOUSE. The little girl across from me has just finished droning, very bored, a renditioning of Gangnam Style (“eeee, exileidee”, I doubt she knows what she is supposed to be singing thankfully), whilst the guy behind me had just stopped listening to Gentleman (Psy’s new […]
Day 4: Happy birthday Hannah!!
G’dday and hello from the Dover-Calais-ferry, closely missing a massive humongous exciting cargo ship which looked like a mountain from afar, so in other words life is very exciting!!So, we are at Day 4, ie. yesterday. A nice “relaxing” day, meaning no travelling on trains and staying in the same area. So, we were in […]
Day 3: Lewes castle and off to Oxford
(Written last night, 21st of June, but had no wifi-access then…) Coucou lovies, Today was basically a day of travel. We had decided to go to Lewes in the morning, a town a 15 minute-train ride away. We had eaten breakfast, mostly finished packing, and it was 9.52 when I checked the train timetables. “There’s […]
Day 2: Emirates Stadium&Ipswich!
HALLO PUMPKINS, Today we spent about six hours in trains. It’s a lot of time and something to get used to during the next weeks, but it went surprisingly well. I spent more or less a third of the trips asleep, a third playing Marble Saga (STILL ON THE SAME DARN LEVEL) and a third […]
Day 1: And so it begins……
Dear fans, family and friends, This was the view from my window this morning. A view I was quite happy to leave. Ok, granted this was after a brilliant year as an English assistant at a prestigious school in France, but this view also meant work, school and stress (and a badly cut lawn, merci Monsieur). […]
French Dinner
A “test” entry about my cultural French experience. FRENCH DINNER 🙂 Once upon a time I had a French dinner. It was amazing. Unfortunately it happened to be the day I dyed my hair bright orange, and it felt a bit awkward entering the posh LE P’TIT NICOLAS restaurant with these two older French couples, into this large area that […]