On Thursday, it was a local holiday therefore since baba was off work, we decided to head to Versailles and have a picnic by the bank of the Grand Canal before dragging my parents around the château. It was so busy, full of families, friends and tourists all sitting having picnics, dipping their feet in the canal as well as cyclists and those who hired rowing boats up and down the canal. We made our own little sandwiches, baguettes of course, and sat munching and taking photos of my surroundings, as well as my dad snoring & me lying on my dad’s legs

All in all, we spent nearly 7 hours in Versailles and I loved the place. Will post more about the château tomorrow as I have over 100 pictures that I need to choose from lol. I’ll leave you now with some picnic photos

Yesterday we decided to go for a drive to Chantilly which is approx 25km away from Central Paris and in particular to the Château de Chantilly which was the home of the princes of Condé, cousins of the kings of France. Château de Chantilly is pretty famous as having the most luxurious royal horse stables in the world (Grandes Ecuries) as well as one of the finest museums of historical paintings in France (after the Louvre), a vast estate of 9500 acres and beautiful gardens.

It was such a beautiful place, not just the château but the town as a whole! After walking around the estate for like 3 hours it was near closing time and we decided to go for dinner at one of the many brasseries and ate one of the most yummiest mixed omlettes and salad I’ve ever had

I’ll leave you now with a selection of photos I took, there are more over at my flickr account which you should check out

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Yesterday was a crazy ass day, mom had some errands to run in Champs-Élysées and then we headed to Boulevard Haussmann to find some outfits for my mom to wear when she flies to New York at the end of May with my dad. They are flying to NYC, spending a week there and then they are getting the Queen Mary 2 Cruise Ship and sailing back to the UK (lucky pigs!). So I had to find some evening dresses for my mom, I picked out 5 dresses and she ended up loving 3 of them and bought them… job done!

As we were meeting my dad later in the evening to go to the movies to see IRON MAN (see previous post for movie review), we decided to head into La Défense where my dad works and walk around the nearby shopping mall Les Quatre-Temps. We decided to go for something quick to eat and ended up in McDonalds before venturing into random shops passing time until dad finished work. I wanted to take more photos around La Défense so we walked around the Esplanade de la Défense and I was snapping away at the CNIT building and La Grande Arche de La Défense, not to mention a weird scuplture outside Les Quatre-Temps. Even though I’ve been to this area tons of times, I can’t help but take photos hahaha

Before we knew it, it was time to meet dad and he was hungry so we were walking around Le Dôme which is joined into Les Quatre-Temps to decide where to eat, as we walked past the Hippopotamus Cafe (the name cracks me up!) there was a table of 2 algerian-moroccan looking guys and they kept staring at me which freaked me out…. so my dad decided to stare at him back and that soon stopped him. My dad felt like having a cheeseburger, so guess where we ended up having dinner before the movie? McDonalds… AGAIN! 3 hours previous, my mom & I were eating cheeseburger happy meals and it was déjà vu all over again! I was so stuffed but mom didn’t want dad to know we ate at McDonalds for lunch so we kept that a secret and had to eat dinner there lol. I felt like I was going to burst!

After my 2nd McDonalds of the day, we headed into UGC Ciné Cité La Défense to buy the movie tickets and get some drinks before the start of the movie, where my dad then comes back with a huge box of popcorn, my poor belly but somehow I found space to munch some of it throughout the movie hahaha I’m seriously never eating that much junk in one day AGAIN!

& there you have it 10 hours of shopping, walking, movie watching and eating until near bursting! I’ll leave you all with tons of photos I took

I think summer is starting to reach Paris, it was 28 degrees celcius yesterday and really sunny so mama & I decided to go out for a little drive before heading to Carrefour to get some goodies. I love all the greenery around the place

Some of the houses and buildings look like you’re going back into a time warp, but I really love it here and am hating to go back to Glasgow (even though I haven’t booked my return ticket yet).

I was leaving my apartment to go to my grandfather’s house when all I see are police all around the area where I stay. I stand watching police helicopters, horses, motorbikes, vans everywhere! Then all of a sudden I hear the noise, the drums, the singing, the shouting. I instantly grab my camera and start shooting what I saw around me….

An Anti-War parade to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War and to demand the withdrawl of troops from Iraq and Afganistan, freedom for Palestine and Lebanon as well as protesting that George Bush is the World’s #1 Terrorist. It was very surreal watching it especially seeing young and old, people from different faiths and backgrounds all coming together to support this cause.