Time In Paris

So this weekend I spent time in the most romantic place in world that's Paris. My first time going, it was pretty sweet how it came about. I went with work (remember the job from the last post) for some of the hard work I put in. So it’s been a blessing. One thing I have learnt & should have stuck in my head, your hard work will always be rewarded. God is true to his word as always.

I got to Paris on Thursday after an interesting train adventure we made it to our hotel which was by the Eiffel Tower, the view from my room was amazing. the theme for the night was all black everything even down to the socks & to set it off a light blue tie, please believe I got complimented on the night. So my first time in Paris and I got to party in the Eiffel Tower it was on baller status stuff, champagne and all that. The view at night from the Eiffel Tower was phenomenal made me wish I had an SLR. The night was spent socialising with my colleagues from UK & France (yes people I socialised. Very weird I know), they are quite interesting out of the work setting & find you have quite a few common interests. I spent some time with 2 SLR owners and I got to play about with one. I actually took some sweet shots, another reason why I wish I had one cause I was having genuine fun taking pictures like I was super excited.

The night progressively got better when the food was served. Oh the food, the French know food the Chicken & Fish were to die for, after I had several servings (they were canapés don't go judging) they brought out dessert, all kinds of pastries and cakes and each one of them was a little drop of heaven again after sampling all of it, they opened the bar, so we drank. So after several glasses of champagne, various double vodka shots and some gin shots, your boy became a bit buzzed (I was well behaved). We stayed till around 1am.

Then we left to go VIP Room. We drove past the Louvre at night, the sight was amazing another thing that made wish I had an SLR. We got to the club, basically the whole club is a VIP section. This is on some P Diddy ish. We got in, Dom P on Ice, Belvedere waiting. The Dom P got opened down the whole glass, then I was given Belvedere & OJ, you know I love my vodka. They started playing my music as in Hip-Hop, something that only happens in US for me, I hit the dance floor started doing my thing, got my colleagues to dance, taught them a few moves. I danced till about 5 am. Oh yeh in the club the quality & beauty of the women was on a totally different level to UK women, I was wishing I was Hank Moody (Californication go watch it). We finally left about 5:15 (the night took a very interesting turn at this point but that will be saved for another post that I will never put up. don't ask cause i will never tell) & got back to our hotel @ 6am & crashed. That was my first night in Paris.

Woke up at 9:30 yeh I know I don't do sleeping in. I woke up fine, no headache, no wanting to throw up, just tired as I hadn't slept. When I woke up I remembered the breakfast finished @ 10, I had to get my food in. I got an excellent breakfast the highlight was cake for breakfast. I was so happy I love me some cake (50's line from 21 questions comes to mind). After breakfast crashed for & hour or so. Got up, got ready and hit the streets of Paris. We walked down the river by the Eiffel Tower as all the sights were on that route, we talked, took pics, yet ANOTHER thing that made me want to get an SLR. We walked from the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre and saw all sights in between. We went to the obelisk that was at the entrance of the Louvre, please believe I was looking for Jay-Z & Alex Ferguson's names on the obelisk but I was unlucky maybe if I could read hieroglyphics We sat outside the Louvre for a bit and talked about future & stuff got me thinking that I really don't have anything that I am passionate about. The conversation had me & still has me perpending (perpend was my word of the day on Friday, that's right I am getting my book learning on) on my life that will be saved for another blog post. We went into the Louvre, got a free ticket because of my age & I am from UK, win win for me.

(Sidebar: I have beef with the Louvre, walking into it dusted my Supra’s, funny enough I wasn't that bothered. You are worried right so am I. I might be changing *shudders*).

We spent quite a bit of time in the Louvre, I was getting my culture on. On a real the Louvre was amazing, well I guess you have to be into art really. I saw the Mona Lisa & Venus de Milo they are both awesome but funny enough my favourite was a painting of Napoleon Bonaparte when he crossed the French alps, I guess it the line he dropped before crossing that resonated with me "For Napolean army, there shall be no Alps" (read up on the story). My time at the Louvre made me realise how much I loved doing Art and design & speaking to my colleague she was like I should get back into (something to add to the list). After seeing and taking shots of the painting, We left to grab lunch. We found a little cafe just off the Louvre and I got to try escargot and it was frigging awesome, I love them. The steak I had was cooked to perfection, after the main meal I got to have Crème brûlée, I am pretty sure if I kissed Alicia Keys it would taste like that, nah but it was beautiful. After the lunch we went for an impromptu shopping session we wound up walking to quite some time through Paris Shopping district. We checked the time it was like 8pm, we left the hotel @ 12am & we had been walking all this time. We hopped into a cab, went to our new hotel. A little cosy but beautiful hotel, checked into my room around 9 or so and crashed till about 8:30 the next day.

Day two was more about shopping, we had breakfast and after breakfast we hit the streets. This time we took the metro to our locations. Their underground is mad cheap 3:30€ for a day travelcard & you have reception as well, if not for roaming charges I would have been tweeting all the way. We went to Printemps that's like Selfridges, like Selfridges I never like anything so I found this mini mega store which was right up my alley. The sneaker game in the store was very impressive, they had Supras but nothing that made me think I must have this right now plus UK is actually cheaper. Managed to pick up a couple of tees. After that we made our way to the Champ Elysees. We did some more shopping found a couple more tees (I love tees),took some shots of the Arc de Triomphe. Around this time I was kind hungry so we hit McDs, it was a lot better than UK. They actually had fresh pastries in McDs I was shocked. After food we headed back to the hotel to get our bags. On the way back picked up some stuff and a bottle of Grey Goose, yeh I got me some Goose how am I going to go France and not get Grey Goose it would have been an insult. We got our bags and made our way to Gard Nord to get the Eurostar back to UK.

As I write this I am on my way back to London listening to B.O.B album (so far I like it was a bit worried but it’s a good listen), this has been a very good trip. I will be definitely be coming back maybe with a special lady who knows but its an amazing city didn't get to see all the sight there is so much to see & try. Apart from the sights and all, it’s been good from me, I have been disconnected from the web, no tweets, emails, BBM nada, I got to communicate with people it is really good (once I am back in UK that's all gonna change). It helped me make some decisions about my life and what sort of direction I want to head in & it also made me want to learn French again because the French love their language & refuse to speak English. It made me remember my love for art & design and I got me loving photography even more (I learned some stuff about my current camera that I didn't know I could do). I will conclude now I am pretty sure this is a long ass post, I will say this Paris had some of the most beautiful women I have seen & it had some of the most arrogant but swagged out individuals. I am about to crash on the train so till next time.

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The GeeK