details of france

so as an aid to helping me remember what i did in france - now and in the future - ! i'll give you a brief day by day report...

Thursday: Ryan air is delayed again - not serious. beauvais airport like a shed but serves its purpose - also the hour trip to paris goes through pretty fields. french fields are different from irish fields (well illustrated from the height of an aeroplane)
they are smoother and more colourful - irish fields are smaller, stragglier but much greener. after negotiatingthe metro i had an OJ and then met up with jan at his apartment. had the best introducion ever to france as got to visit an episerie - a huge supermarket deli like place filled with amazing products - ended up eating apricot cheese on baggettes and drinking red wine (finally some wine!) started rezding henry miller's sexus as was tired to hit to the town.

Friday: Visited Musee D'Orsay - lots of impressionism which suited me - and the Louvre althought i decided no to go into the exhibitions as i thought they wouldn't actually interest me - so i went on this stroll throught tuilleries garden and got ripped off by a sketch guy - walked on this recommended walking route - my feet were soaking and aching so i kept sitting down - eventually came to the beginning of the walk but luckily there was the george pompidou center which houses the modern art galleries so ivestigated that. missed meeting jan because he was late so while i was running around trying to find a phone card he was with his friend bicycling round the area with his friend shouting out Clea!? to any girl that walked by. His friend Hugo accompanyied us for an Italian restuarant dinner and then we walked to notre dame.

Saterday: Saw the place de la concorde along the champs elysee and to the arc du triumphe - climbed that and had views of the eiffel tower etc - setting sun...every hour on the hour the eiffel tower's lights go mad (its know as the orgasm) and then went to walk by the tower itself... sat night went to the play my dinner with andre - supposedly in english but a 3 hour 20 min performance all in french - and they eat a four course dinner prepared by a diff chef each night while they discuss things like theatre and rlaity - i understood about 5 percent but all credit to them they held my attention - also that was aided by being in the front row and chewing some refreshing gum. then we were whicked away by ja's rich friend in his bmw and went to a little bar in saint germaine for a drink.

Sunday: don't remember...at some point i watched "the dreamers" about the 1968 riots in paris. i also watched the woody allen match point at some stage - oh dear its all getting confused. possibly also visited luxemburg gardens - very beautiful - ate roasted chestnuts...had a crepe for supper -

Monday: I went to Sacre Coeur and montmartre and climbed many many stairs and took picture and generally had a good time - also watched farenheight 541.

Tuesday: went to fontaimebleu by train - eventually - after not knowing where to go or how to get there - had a little magically dinner alone .. watched french tv

Wednesday: checked ut the castle in fontaimebleu and the gorgeous gardens, got back to paris and went to the museum where claude monet's impression sunrise is displayed. watched jules et jim - also truffaut
went to jan's friends house in bastille for supper and met some cool people from all over europe and knwoing may languages and stuff.

Thursday: back to dublin - met up with karen - had great supper and chat. had fantastic bath (hadn't bathed in months only showered what a luxury!)

Friday: today! met hannah and said goodbye - she is visiting shen in dublin.

will update if i remember what i did on sunday!!!