Yesterday Esther & I joined Simon & Sally for a day trip to the ridiculous extravagance that is the palace of Versaille. About half an hour out of Paris by train, it was considerably colder than it had been in the days before & we all shivered our way from the train to the grand, golden palace gates. We spent a good 6 hours or so wandering the palace grounds, because a lot of attractions/museums/galleries etc. in Paris are closed on a Monday - nonet...

When I went down for breakfast at 7:00AM this morning there were a whole bunch of very enthusiastic looking people in running gear…um, what the!? The I remembered, it's the day of the marathon! And with about 26000 people running in it this year it's a pretty big deal! So Esther & I headed down to the 3km mark to show some support to her brother Simon by eating croissants & drinking café au lait while he did all the hard work. It's tough to be a spec...

This morning Esther and set out to explore Marches aux Puces - the very large, expansive markets of Montmartre. We managed to trawl through about 100 counterfeit shoe/hoody/t-shirt stalls to find the good stuff - the flea markets! There we happily browsed for treasures through others' trash while I munched on a crepe with lemon & sugar from a nearby stall. It was yet another beautiful, warm, sunshiney day in Paris, & we stopped to soak up the sun at one...

So I had a chat with the wilderbeest last night, & he's actually quite nice really…for a wilderbeest! :P He's actually a sweet, rather nerdy computer programmer from Toronto, who (thankfully for us) is leaving Paris today!! :D Less snoring last night…although perhaps that's just because I had "spring rain" on max volume…haha Yesterday morning Esther & I made an early start out to the Sacre Coeur, which is just a short walk away from o...

OK, we have un petit problem! Last night Esther & had the pleasure of meeting our room mates at 1:00AM when they came home from a big night out & we discovered that one of them snores like a tractor…or a wounded wildebeest…sort of a combination of the 2! We had a brief pow wow at 2:30AM & considered muffling him with a pillow or sticking something up his nose before deciding to go for the more non-violent route of earplugs. Being an eternally tr...