Braved the wet weather and went to the Paris Cemetery today where we saw the graves of Chopin, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf. The Chopin grave had a statue on it, and someone had placed some hand-written music in the arms of the statue. We can only guess that it was a composer who wanted Chopin to bless their music. Oscar Wilde's grave had lipstick marks all over it. It is apparently a mecca for people who want to kiss his grave as he has become a cult figure for m...

Paris was our first stop and we wasted no time getting stuck into cakes and croissants. When we arrived at our apartment the host was not there yet, it was 9:30am, so we immediately sourced a cafe right across the road from Notre Dame and ordered cheescake smothered in berry coulis and a couple of croissants. Our apartment was only 100 metres from Notre Dame in the Latin quarter in a fantastic location. After checking in and lugging all of our luggage up 5 flig...

This blog is our way of keeping a travel diary for our travels to Europe in 2016. I will be skimming the first 3 weeks, because Alex travelled with us for this time and kept a travel diary of her own....and because I'm a lazy b****** I didn't keep any diary for this time, I simply tagged along eating and drinking my way through Europe.