February 2012
24 posts
Concerning Two Doors, and a Cinema, and a Club
See the full gallery on Posterous THE TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB. This is the story of how I managed to, despite being millions of miles away, get a ticket to see my favourite band of the hour, in a foreign land, with one of the coolest people I know. Back in November, The Excellent Dave (henceforth TED) and I were having a hypothetical conversation concerning the fact that, considering I...
Concerning Laundy
See the full gallery on Posterous It’s interesting, being your own housekeeper. Definitely not something we’re used to, as wonderful luxury-absorbent South Africans. Tash and I are finally learning to do things for ourselves, and this includes our laundry. Not as easy a job as you’d think, considering the abominable lack of sunshine to dry our clothes. Nevertheless, we are...
Concerning Graveyards & Drunk Irish People
See the full gallery on Posterous This week we did one quite touristy thing and one quite non-touristy thing. Our class schedules at SciencesPo are quite cool because, apart from Wednesdays, we never really have class in the afternoon. This means that, at least once a week I can turn to my delightful partner in crime and ask “Do you want to do something touristy this...
Concerning The Louvre (1)
I say (1) because I hope there will be more visits after this :) On Sunday we missioned to the #1 tourist destination spot in the world. Yup, the whole world. The Louvre gets about 3.8 million visitors a year (according to the wikipedia page - as far as facts are concerned, I can only confirm that it has definitely had at least 2 visitors this year), and even though most people just walk in,...
Tash & I wrote and recorded a song today. OK....
Concerning Lips, Jazz & Korea
Rule #1 about surviving the Paris Ice Age: Don’t Lick Your Lips. It’s just not a risk you should be willing to take - what with the freezing arctic winds whistling around every corner. I’m not sure if people in SA can really fathom how cold it is here at the moment. This week has been all minus 0, all the time. The fact that it isn’t snowing just makes you miserable that...
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)
January 2012
17 posts
Concerning Mexicans, The Marais, and Hot...
See the full gallery on Posterous Monday was a cool day. Tash had her first class (I don’t have class on a Monday… Or Friday, for that matter) but I went with her because we South Africans stick together! SciencesPO is kinda like Wits: there are different buildings with many labelled rooms (sometimes arbitrary labels… As anyone who’s ever had a class in...
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
Concerning Shopping and Portuguese Men
See the full gallery on Posterous Yesterday was eventful. Tash and I met up with Mikael - our philosophy friend from Wits who’s currently on a Contiki tour around Europe. They had one day in Paris - how fun to spend it with us! After meeting at Notre Dame, the locals (being us) took the tourists (being them) to Champs-Élysées on the metro - we bought them tickets...
Concerning Felafel and Pillars
See the full gallery on Posterous This afternoon Wendy (the most awesome lady ever ever) invited us to lunch at this awesome Lebanese place near UNESCO (that’s where she works… Refer to previous comment about her awesomeness). It was really wonderful :) we had falafel wraps - like Anat, but way better. We had tiny desserts and mint tea (on the house… Yes!). On...
Concerning French Fruit
See the full gallery on Posterous This morning Tash and I decided to explore our neighbourhood a bit. We discovered that, in addition to the two grocery stores right below our apartment, there is also a sizeable fresh fruit, veggie, meat, seafood and cheese market (the Marché St Martin) just around the corner. We spent half and hour and €20 chatting to Eric, the fresh fruit guy. He...
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield (via kari-shma)
Concerning Wolves
See the full gallery on Posterous Wolves Cafe (just past the Wanderer’s) is the cutest little coffee, cake, & croissants place around. Although it’s further from the quaint Post in Braam and the trendy Vovo Telo at 44 Stanley (at least for us South kids), Wolves has a chilled vibe of its own. Warren, Adam and I spent 3 hours here today, playing very loud games of UNO and 30...
Concerning The Sea
See the full gallery on Posterous 2012 and I met on the coast. It was really special! I nearly stayed behind (seriously), but I’m so glad I didn’t. I met such beautiful people, and met such beautiful parts of people that I already knew. How wonderful! What a way to ring in the New Year. Yay!
December 2011
12 posts
Concerning One October Night
See the full gallery on Posterous You only live once. Coldplay are a phenomenal band. Their music tends towards the epic in a way that can only be fully appreciated once listened to live in concert with 100,000 others. It’s funny how I listen to music alone, wishing I was enjoying it in a crowd, but only feel truly satisfied by live music when it makes me feel - among throngs of people...
