Hotel La Marmotte
Travel Blogs from Paris
Losing myself in Paris
... I suppose! I stopped at the market to buy a bread roll and a pastry, and a bottle of wine and retreated to my room. To add insult to injury I had forgotten that French wine does not come in screw top, but so desperate was I that I dug the wretched cork out with my nail scissors :D So I got lost in Paris twice - once in the magic of the flea market, and once in the horror of haute couture! Enjoyed my dinner and packed my bags ready for my journey to London in the ...
Paris
... of the area. He told us that if questioned by the police we would just play the tourist card, look like we didn't know what was going on, thank them for straightening out what we were doing wrong and then move on. This was a great way to see the city and I loved the freedom of being back on a bike, even a small one, again. Before we knew it, our 4 hours were up and we were back at the apartment, saying goodbye and banking another memory of our time in Paris.Our last day ...
Our Last Day in Paris
... taking in the glorious sunshine. My thoughts went back again to when I was living in Paris working as a "jeune-fille-au-pair". My girlfriends and I would come to this park doing what we're doing today – sitting, relaxing and people watching. At the time I really fell in love with Paris and I couldn’t think of ever leaving this great city. I looked into the possibility of not going back to Canada but staying in Paris. My decision to return to ...
Two is Better Than One
I read somewhere that "success is 99% failure". It's no different than one of my favourite sayings from my days just after graduating from uni when I used to say: "It's all about the numerator. I may get rejected 100 times, but it's that 1 success on the 101st time that matters."
I thought I had been doing fine alone, navigating around Paris, trying to talk to strangers, trying to get in the mix, until my best ...
...Well, it takes a long time to write 9000 words.
... play. Thomas is a short-sighted, incredibly awkward character who has memorized everything he is supposed to say except because he can’t see, he keeps giving his speeches to the wrong people. Cléante is there, too, because he is pretending to be Angelique’s music teacher so that they can make a plan to run away together but for some reason he ends up getting roped into being part of this visit by Dr. Diaforius and his son. Cléante tries to communicate his ...