My friend came to visit last Sunday and we spent the day exploring Paris by foot, visiting some of my favourite places in the city and discovering some new. Spending the day in the sunshine and showing someone around made me realise just how much I’ve come to love it here and how slowly but … Continue reading THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS…
The one thing I'm not great at but that I'm not giving up on...
I’m nearly half way through my time as an au pair, I can’t believe that I only have just over 5 months left here. I feel that it has both gone quickly and super slowly at times. No doubt the quickest were the first two months, everything being new and time just slips away. The … Continue reading THE HALF WAY POINT…
My take on the 10 year challenge...
For today’s post I’m going a little off topic. For this week I’m pushing pause on the Paris life updates and talking about something very close to my heart. Skin. To be precise, acne. Towards the end of last year a well-known beauty blogger known as My Pale Skin, real name Em Ford posted this … Continue reading SKIN DEEP..?
As I sit here starting to write this I’m on the Eurostar heading back to Paris. I’ve spent two weeks in England for Christmas, the first at my parents in Suffolk and the second in London at my sisters. I had every intention of writing a post whilst home, but the truth is I was … Continue reading AND JUST LIKE THAT, IT WAS TIME TO GO BACK…
Two things. Firstly, you’re probably a bit tired of me harping on about Christmas and secondly I’m sorry but I’m not quite done, yet. There are only 9 days left until Christmas and I’m heading into my last week here in Paris before the New Year. I’ve been a bit under the weather the past … Continue reading THE LITTLE DETAILS…
Making the most of December in the city of lights...
I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week. In all honesty, I’ve not been up to all that much and with a test coming up on Thursday at school I’ve been trying (note the use of the word trying…I’m having varying degrees of success) to spend some time revising. It’s no secret that … Continue reading IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS…
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