Trains, planes and stuff.....

Last weekend I went with my sister to Paris, as you do!

I had arrived in Amsterdam earlier that week, got myself on European time and then we were off!

And boy do they do trains in Europe well.

This is what I recorded on my app, Dashboard on  the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris, and I think we actually went faster than this later on!

Insert sad face here,  in Australia, we can look forward to speeds of 80kmh.


So read it and weep people, it's now 11pm in London, so I'm off to bed as I'm doing Regents Canal  tomorrow!

Choices, choices, choices,

I've really got myself in a dilemma! After attending Cordon Bleu open day last Saturday Paris, I did a personal guided tour of  cordon bleu london......



And now I'm torn!

Both have pros and cons and I'm spending a lot of brain power trying to reason which school would be the best and which City has the most to offer.

Paris has the history, the markets and of course the French!

London, which was the second cordon bleu school outside Paris has decidedly better facilities, French chefs and I can speak the language.

so, you can see my decision is not easy,

Yes it could be, I could just go to Cordon Bleu in Sydney , but what's the fun  in that?

So maybe you can help me......


If YOU had to make a decision where would you go.........

Stay tuned.....

Letter from Paris

I can't get any photos to load on via the iPad, so I am going to treat you with a letter from Paris...

Pictures will come at a letter date.

Dear Diary,

Today I arrived in Paris!  This is my about my 6th visit and still the excitement remains when I see the Tour Eiffel, symbol of Paris.

I'm here to attend an open day for

Le Cordon Bleu Paris cooking school  in preparation for my grown up gap year.

My sister is my support person, because you need someone to be your unbiased eyes and ears for things like this.

The weather is brilliant much warmer than I expected, I suppose I could blame climate change for that! :-)

We are staying at a lovely hotel on the Rive Gauche, which describes me to a tee,a bit left of centre!

We are going to do the hop on hop off bus, a comedy show and visit some sites, so,I'll close this letter now and will write another day.

Love gg

Unsubscribe me........!

If you've been wondering where I've been for the last week, I've been unsubscribing from marketing emails. You know the type, you might buy something once from somewhere, or look at a website and then you are locked in to getting all their junk email forever and a day.

Well, as I am now on my GAP YEAR and have TIME to get.stuff.done. I am trawling through all those emails and unsubscribing.

It's a demon of a job, let me tell you something for nothing....

Some are easy, you just have to click and then say "thank you" you are now unsubscribed.

BUT others want a whole song and dance about WHY you are unsubscribing!!

Let's just say that I do not need any personalised jewellery! I bought some for a Christmas present about 10 years ago and have been putting up with their junk in my in box for the remaining years.

NOW GONE!

YAY!

I don't know about you, but I don't get many personal emails anymore (insert sad face here  :-( )
most of it is junk mail, so when I finally get all my unsubscribes done,  will I be facing a lonely inbox each day?

Maybe not!!