Down the Rabbit Hole (with pink Elephants): Macaroons

Ice skating at UK Natural History Museum

Christmas feast!

What has happened since my last blog:

Heavy snow in our town of Angel
Christmas with JoJo and the Phillips family
Visited by Nat
New years at Cargo
Trip to Paris with Nat
Back to work
Start chaotic fitness addiction

They are the stand out points anyway.

From the start;

Christmas was white, cold yet very cheerful and full of good food, good company and love. Not to mention surprisingly some sunshine. Nick and I went to visit Grandma (Audrey) up in Peterborough for a short Christmas break with a nice layer of snow and a clear blue sky, not that the sun did any help in defrosting the snot that was freezing into icicles on the end of your nose.

Dinner at Anna and Jerry's

Then there was Nat, I had been so looking forward to having one of my girls fly over from home to visit me and it was so good to see her! We did lots of fun things, went to Smithfields market, Camden Town, Soho, Ice skating, Oxford Street, Regents Street and so much more. Nat fell in love with the brand Karen Millen which I completely respect and understand, good taste she has.

New Years was one of the best I can remember, with my boy and my Nat and my housemates, new outfits and masks! We celebrated in style, one to remember!

New Years Eve

And then then there was Paris, what an eventful 5 days that was. Having no expectations apart from rude Parisians and and buttery pastries I was most pleasently surprised by the stench of urine.

Perhaps pleasantly isn't the correct word, lets go with "rudely offended" instead.

Apart from the smell, the never ending trail of homeless people, refusal to participate in post Christmas sales and snobby Parisians who refuse to speak English, it was an enchanting and wonderful place.

We did alot in the few days we were there;

One of the ceilings at the Louvre

Top score for food, wine and bubbles. Nat took us to this unbelievable patisserie/restaurant called Laduree which had both the most incredibly beautiful interior as it did pastries, chocolates, macaroons and preserves. I bought 8 Macaroons for 14 Euros. Go on, call me crazy, but they were delicious.

Statue at the Louvre

We went to another place called Maille which had so many types of oils, vinegars and condiments that you didn't quite know what to do with yourself. It was so cool, people were coming up with these big ceramic jars with cork plugs and the lady behind the counter would fill them up with what looked like Dijon mustard out of what I can only describe as "mustard on tap" pump like things.

Stand out moment would be visiting Sacre-Couer. It is a very old and very beautiful Church in Montmarte. I am by no means religious but for some reason visiting this place stirred something inside. It made me want to do nothing more than sit down on a pew, close your eyes and just be. How stupid do I sound? It the truth though, I do not lie.

Paris had its moments when it shocked me with its enchanting beauty, when you were least expecting it. All of a sudden you stop and look at the landscape, the cobblestone street, the sun coming through the clouds, just little things and you think to yourself wholly shit it really is beautiful. I am not going to lie having a glass of Champagne in your had does help.

After visiting Paris I decided that Nick and I will have to go back, see the countryside. If the city is that picturesque I can only imagine what the rest of it looks like.