Jet lag is a bitch. Again I'm awake at 4am because my body thinks I've 'slept in'. Its not too bad though since the morning is so beautiful here.
Yesterday we set out from the apartment as the sun was rising at 8am and stopped for a coffee at our local cafe. The lady there could speak english but i still tried to practice my french on her. Its so much easier communicating with someone who has terrible english skills to match my terrible french skills. We sat by the window and watch people go by on their way to work, breathing smoke into the cold air.
Some observations-
Everybody smokes
Everybody drinks (start early too)
Old ladies are all angry chimney sweeps
We have not seen a single insect. Not one fly, mossie, spider or ant. Weird
After a beautifully strong coffee we started wandering over to the Notre Dam Cathedral. Im not religious in any way shape or form, but it was a beautiful experience. I have plenty of photos but we'll have to post them when we get home.
The beauty of our trip so far is that we aren't doing any tours. We're on our own time and aren't rushed anywhere. It feels like so much more of an achievement when we find something we're looking for, discover something great that was unintended or manage to communicate to someone with our formidably poor french. Id take that any day rather than being lectured in english and being hustled around on a bus with other tourists... No thanks.
We wandered from the cathedral to the south, heading towards the pantheon. The wandering was half the fun, we discovered so many little restaurants and shops. By 2:30pm we all started to feel jet lag set in, it was getting towards mid night in brisbane so our silly heads kept telling us to sleep.
We found a great Japanese take away joint and got some sashimi, i promise ill start eating french food soon, i just keep coming back to the old favorites. Speaking of which, theres so many great street side vendors and they're cheap! Lots of cheese on just about everything but i think i can put up with that for the time being ;)
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