As I've been writing earlier, the weather here in Paris has been quite crappy lately. Today that total changed though as the temperature right now (at 21:50) is 19 degrees outside... And today it was closer to 24 degrees... Not okay!! I have already packed down my summer clothes and been looking forward to folder times with sweaters and coats (I've even been secretly looking forward to wear my thick mittens!).
Apparently it will stay hot now again so it's just to get used to it. I must admit that you can take much nicer pictures of the beautiful fall when the sun is out
This is just the funniest picture ever!!
I have it as a background on my phone so every time I check the time or get a notification I laugh out loud. Am I crazy or isn't just hilarious?!
It's my new favorite!!
If you have spotify you can go and look at my playlists. I think I fixed today so that it's available for everyone to see
Was just walking from my gym session to a dinner with friends and on the way I thought I would call my mom.
She also has an iPhone now so we have iMessage for free and FaceTime for free (free video calls between iPhones) and now with the new iOS update its possible to call FaceTime without wifi, you can call anywhere!
So all in all, I had to take advantage of those minutes walking through Paris to get a piece of Sweden on the way
Tonight I was invited by Christina for dinner at her place. Great food an great company is all I can say :)
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Had a kind of slow day at work today, woke up alright and was very much alive and alert but at work I became so tired! I just had the feeling that my feet was weighing 100 kilo each.
After work I went to gym and had a proper work out and after I went to meet P at a sushi place. We booked a table in advance on http://lafourchette.fr">lafourchette.fr and had 40% discount! It was a sushi go round and its so so good, it's a must to check out that site before eating out in Paris.
Time to get back to the blogging again? I wish! I love writing things here and uploading pictures on what is going on but sometimes it feels like a job... And to work a little extra after a day of full time job with plenty of challenges, the winner between blog and tv is mostly... TV!
This weekend has been spent on the French countryside, more precisely Redon in Brittany! Took some beautiful pictures of sites in the garden and made this collage. It can be such a blessing to leave Paris sometimes
Fall is orange
Leaving a crowded Paris for a weekend in the countryside of Brittany! It's amazing how different the French countryside is in comparison with the Swedish one. It feels so much more greener! Which is a bit weird when thinking about the enormous forests of Sweden...
There are much more leaf trees here I guess and much much wider green fields. Outside Paris it's almost only fields, probably because of centuries of agriculture due to the big demand for food from Paris. Here is Brittany it's more forest and it makes me feel more home than the open fields (småland boy as I am!).
I really, really like the French high speed trains though! They are usually on time, very comfortable, quiet and super fast!! Almost as good as the German ICE ones ;)
Sen jag flyttade till Paris så har jag läst mer böcker än jag någonsin gjorde i Sverige. Anledningen är att jag inte hade så många att prata svenska med förutom med familjen hemma och till viss del över telefon med jobbet. Jag läser nog en bok i månaden tror jag vilket jag tycker är ganska bra i alla fall!
Den genre som jag har fastnat för är historier som utspelar sig bakåt i tiden som under 18- och tidigt 19- hundratal. Jag är bara så himla fascinerad att läsa om hur folk levde förr, hur hemskt allting var och hur hårt de fick slita för att bara överleva. Man lär sig massa nya ord också och yrken som folk hade förr som inte ens finns längre idag.
Böcker jag verkligen kan rekommendera är Kejsaren av Portugallien av Selma Lagerlöf som är en väldigt vacker historia om en far som saknar sin dotter så mycket att han blir galen. Den bästa boken jag läst är nog ändå Giganternas fall av Ken Follett som skildrar livet under första världskriget sett från alla samhällsklasser. Jag gillade den boken bara för att han beskriver allt så levande och man verkligen sugs in i historien bara för att detta var en tid i världen då stod inför enorma förändringar av maktbalans, arbetar- och industriell revolution. En gång missade jag att gå av i tunnelbanan bara för att jag var så tagen!!
Bara för att Giganternas fall var så himla bra så köpte jag en annan bok av Ken Follett när jag var hemma över påsk, den heter Svärdet och Spiran. Har läst den hela dagen och kommit en bit in i den men jag är lite besviken än så länge, denna boken håller inte alls samma kvalité av spänning som den andra boken... Känns som om den är lite fööör beskrivande om allt, vi får se
...French preparty!!
Holiday tomorrow so we are taking the opportunity to have some wine!
Idag var första gången som jag provade på instagram! Jag vet att det funnits tillgängligt hur länge som helst men nu har jag äntligen laddat ner det också.
Anledningen till att jag inte gjort det tidigare va för att jag trodde det kostade pengar, att det var krångligt och att det var ett program man laddad ner på datorn. Tzzz stupido :p
Exprememterar lite med utsikten från lägenheten
Så coolt!!
It took a long time before I found a sushi go round in Paris that is actually affordable. I loved to go to those restaurants in Asia just because you can see and chose what you want instead of ordering it from a menu.
The place is called Matsuri and is really a chain of restaurants but it's only at Rue du Bac on line 12 where you can pick the sushi fresh from kitchen, yammey!!
Paris is even more beautiful now when the leaves on the trees are yellow, the sky is cloudy and the streets are colder. I really enjoy to walk around in my trench coat and gloves and just feel the fresh cold air in my face and lungs. Even though the cold winds has also brought along the sickness and cough... My cough has just arrived this week and is starting to get pretty annoying!
Annyways, people talk about Paris as the place to be during spring;
"Meet the spring in Paris and fall in love"
In doubt of this saying I have just fallen in love with Paris in autumn, the colours of the city melts together perfectly and it reminds me of how happy I feel to be in this beautiful city. Every place I know in Paris is seen in a new light and is changed from how it has been looking throughout the summer.
Yesterday I took the time to go out and welcome the autumn to Paris. And what other way to celebrate the arrival of autumn by checking out the new arrivals of clothes in the stores! ;)
But also with the new season comes the new season of clothes! I have already started my shoping yesterday and I found some really nice things! First we started by walking on Les Champs Elysses where the biggest H&M and Zara stores are and then we walked to the "backside" of Champs Elysses where is is much less people but much nicer areas, just to enjoy the new suit of the city. Shopping was complete at Printemps and the Madeleine where I found the best buy of the day! My new boots!
At first I found exactly the same shoes at Ralph Lauren but I did not even dare to ask for the price over there but they must have been around a thousand euro. But since this town is really made for shopping, you can always find a cheaper alternative as long as you know where to go! ;-) In H&M I found a matching belt as well in the same colour and new jeans at Zara. I believe there will be many more shopping rounds before this season is over!
Today I visited a friend that lives close to Centre Pompidou which is in the very center of Paris. I did of course get lost on the way there! It's really complicated to find your way in the center if you're not used to it since the streets are very small and its hard to know if you are going north or south or whatever. Its also hard to get around on the streets since it is totally over-crowded with tourists! It makes me feel even happier to live a little bit outside the very center of Paris.
Anyway, what I really love with Paris is that there is always something new to see and always something new behind every street corner! Today was also the first time I went into the Notre Dame cathedral! The line to get in is usually hour-long... But today we only stood there for one minute so a visit was given! Luckily its free to get in there since it was not very impressive on the inside... There is a thousand other cathedral that has a more impressive inside but Notre Dame is the most spectacular on the outside.
So next time you are thinking about standing in line it should be because you want to go up on the roof, otherwise save your time or spend it on looking at the extraordinary exterior! ;)
So I went to the fashion show of Agnès B.
It was really nice but the clothes was a bit too casual and basic and we all agreed. Apparently there is the "Ready-to-wear fashion week this week in Paris so that is why a lot of stores put up showrooms in their flagship stores to promote the new collection.
In other words this means that more or less normal people like me get to see the new collection... As well as enjoing some free champagne and appèrtifs! ;)
The roof view inside from Agnès B, the cathedral Saint Eustache!
There were of course free goodie bags!! ;)
