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 […]
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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 […]