Bonne Année ! Happy New Year!
I'm back on French soil! After a very busy Christmas break in
London catching up with everyone I flew out to
Paris on December 31st to stay with my friend Guillaume and see in
2016. His friends came over for an amazing meal, complete with foie gras, wine (obvs) and chicken he had brought with him all the way from the southern French countryside - seriously free range! Not forgetting the 'oven potatoes' expertly made by César.
I had a fantastic night catching up with Exeter friends and meeting lots of lovely Frenchies (and a couple of Americans). One of the highlights has to be watching the countdown to midnight on the projector screen - Guillaume knows how to throw a good party.
The following day was spent nursing our hangovers and building up the energy to tidy up. Charles and Caroline were also staying over from the US so fortunately we had a lot of manpower and managed to get the place looking back to normal. Later in the afternoon Guillaume's friends joined us and we were shown round the city by true Parisian tour guides, finishing with a meal at
Miss Ko just off the Champs Élysées. We rounded off our day back at the apartment with a viewing of one of my favourite French films,
Les intouchables.
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| Onesies: essential January 1st dress code |
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| Playing tourist outside the Louvre |
On Saturday we had another walking tour of the city before I said my goodbyes and went to meet American Annie from Avignon who was also in Paris for the New Year. We went for a coffee with a couple of her friends from uni who also showed us around for our final few hours before we headed off on the metro to catch our Blablacar back to Avignon. Despite being a six and a half hour journey, it went surprisingly quickly - probably due to the incredibly chatty French man who was travelling with us and didn't stop talking once!
Life's beginning to get back to normal now and need to get lesson planning for school on Tuesday.
A bientôt,
Katie x
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