February 2012
29 posts
Concerning Visas
See the full gallery on Posterous Woohoo! Tash got her Visa for England, and it seems legit and EVERYTHING! Looks like our epic weekend in the land of the Pomms is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG! Beer to celebrate!
Concerning Trains & Stairs
Quick post about our day in Chartres yesterday :) Chartres is a super beautiful tiny town about 90km SW of Paris. It’s sleepy and twisty, with cobblestone roads and mossy pavements, and the reason anyone ever goes there is because Chartres has the most stunning, well-preserved Medieval cathedral in the world. Like, the whole world. It’s super cool! Tash & took a train from Paris...
Concerning Art, Fish, and Sunshine
See the full gallery on Posterous I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Specifically, I apologise to Martin for not having blogged in a while. To make up for it, here’s a round-up of everything I’ve done since I got back from England. Art Matthew is a Canadian guy in one of my History classes. We met outside 199 Blv Saint-Germaine,...
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-)
