And that's it. I'm on my own in Paris and the adventure
begins.
En fait, I should say the adventure continues because
yesterday's hunt for accomodation was a mad dash across Paris to keep all our
appointments. At least I'm well acquainted with the metro now, helped a few
beggars and saw some interesting graffiti - "Too drunk to f**k!".
Apparently not to spray-paint though.
The logement
The room I'm typing from isn't ideal but it's by far the best out
of the ones we saw. C'est dommage that the bedroom in the indoor-swimming-pool
house turned out to be just a converted conservatory. It was too hot for even a
tropical man such as moi-meme.
Anyhow, I don't plan to spend much time in my room and am
gonna use the hell out of my monthly metro pass to explore la Ville
Lumière/D'Amour/De la Tour Eiffel (delete as appropriate).
The plan for tomorrow
So tomorrow I'm completely libre to roam around, practise my
commute to work and find a bar/café in this damn city that's showing the
Wimbledon final (allez Roger)!
For those of you heading out to Paris soon, depechez-vous!
There's only so long I can stand French-only company and it would be good to
know there's some familiar faces floating around this lovely city.
As the year abroad lady said "Don't say no to any
opportunity". And I don't plan to.
Peace From Paris.
Have fun on your year abroad! How did you go about flat hunting exactly?
ReplyDeleteThanks Abi you too! Took out a premium membership on appartager.com and got a load of phone numbers to organise viewings
DeleteJe me depeche! Mais en fait je dois attends le 25 aout! Nous nous verrons, je te promets. Nous pourrons melanger le francais et l'anglais comme le blog, tres bien!
ReplyDeleteGo to the top of the Eiffel tower and fart in my general direction!
ReplyDeleteThere's a French group called Nouvelle Vague that do a great version of Too Drunk to F*** if you haven't heard it already. Maybe that was the inspiration for the graffiti. :) Liking the blog, bon courage !
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