Yesterday was our last day in Paris but with the change in time, the head cold that Brodie is suffering from and a general tiredness we decided a Sunday sleep in was required. We headed out to Le Marais late morning with our first stop being St Paul to visit Le musee Picasso. Unfortunately, what we didn't know was that it was an open day and so everyone was queuing up for free entry. With a 30 - 45 minute wait we decided to skip it - very disappointing as I was r...

We had planned a relaxed morning with Jonathan, Brodie and myself hanging out in Wanstead village while Jat took Sophie to Westfield Stanford and Roz and the girls were at work/school. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out that way when Jonathan had his wallet stolen while Brodie was getting a haircut. After a mad runaround the village trying to get it back we gave up and headed to KingsCross for our Eurostar booking to Paris. Eurostar is amazing, so easy to ge...

You can not visit Paris without visiting Le Tour Eiffel so we were up early to join the masses. Talk about queues! We got there at 8.50, it doesn't open until 9.30am, to be greeted by an impossibly long winding queue. Fortunately, the queue for the stairs was much shorter and so our exercise for the morning was to climb up to the second floor - not too hard in fact but we were all feeling a bit of vertigo by the time we got there. It was another crystal clear, su...

Yesterday I went to get a haircut in Wanstead village and when we were in there someone pick pocketed my Dad and stole his wallet. After that I went to a lolly shop and I got some lollies, they call them sweets here. We took all our luggage on the underground so we could catch the Eurostar, it was very tiring! The Eurostar was really fast, it didn't seem like three hours! I was really tired by the time we got to the apartment. Today we had croissants and pain ...