Paris 2010 (Part 1 - day 1 and 2)

Yup, 'Paris 2010' is pretty much how I label everything relating to my trip to Paris this year. How inventive.

This is a brief run down of what

happened on my brief across-three-days-but-technically-still-just-under-48hours trip:

- Sat in the wrong seat on the Eurostar,

- Got our travelcards, learnt how to pronounce the name of the stop we had to get to, "Lamarck"

- Brief nighttime wonder around the area (Montmartre) and back to the non-existant aircon in the hotel room to sleep. (Too hot to leave the windows closed, but too loud to have them open.)

- Wonder around the area in actual daylight, visit a bakery or two.

- Puppies!!!!

- Back to the hotel to nap (because that's what I do ;)) and change.

- Louvre for outside watching and sunburning.

- (I didn't get to realize how sunburnt I got until we got back to the hotel. It wasn't BAD, but I was pinky red. With a tan. I both tan and burn. Go figure.)

- Still early in the day, (I'd guess it was about 3-4pm) so we went to the Pompidou, but turns out it closes on tuesdays :( we sat outside watching tourists get just as confused as we were and waited for them to read the sign that mentioned the museum being closed.

Young group of girls busking. The boy seemed to be there purely to turn the pages.

- After about 2 hours of sitting, eating and being confused, we decided to carry on with the day and go visit the Eiffel Tower.

- Getting sunburnt and the now lack of energy didn't help to my lack of enthusiasm to the Eiffel Tower, which would be a partial reason to the little photos I took of the actual Tower itself.

- We sat on the grass opposite the Tower for about an hour this time. We were tired, sunburnt and experience some uncomfortable rubbing and no way to stop it.

- This was the end of our day (7-8pm - all Parisian time) and thus we headed back to the hotel. A stop in the local supermarket shops for dinner and then to another restless night of minimal sleep, with my friend managing to sleep and me sitting in the bathtub for an hour planning the last day. (There is a picture of me in the tub on my twitter - look for the date of 30th June)

Fairly long post.

The next will be of the day 3, aka The Last Day.

(All photos were taken by me and are on my flickr. If you use any of my photos, please always rightfully link them back to flickr. Copyrights, dude.

Taken with a diana mini and digital cam.)

Paris playlist - 2010

I go to Paris tomorrow. 30minutes earlier than I thought. Good thing I checked the time!

I haven't packed yet. The previous post of the planned list of what I was going to take? Yes, indeed it has changed. I am definitely for sure, bringing 5 rolls of camera film - 100/200/400/800ISO and a Redscale film.

Anyway, made a playlist for my short time visit and thought i'd share the list :)

1. 'Gives you hell' - All American Rejects

2. 'You know I'm no good' - Amy Winehouse

3. 'The Gift' - Angels and Airwaves

4. 'Crown of love' - Arcade Fire

5. 'Only man ' - Audio Bullys

6. 'White winter hymnal' - Fleet Foxes

7. 'Electric bloom' - Foals

8. 'Everlong' - Foo Fighters

9. 'Old white Lincoln' - The Gaslight Anthem

10. 'C'mere' - Interpol

11. 'Phantom' - Justice

12. 'Phantom part. II' - Justice

13. 'Read my mind' - The Killers

14. 'Another brick in the wall part 1/2/3' - Korn

15. 'Krwlng' ft. Aaron Lewis - Linkin Park

16. 'Stockholm syndrome' - Muse

17. 'Dead star' - Muse

18. 'In Your World' - Muse

19. 'Citizen erased' - Muse

20. 'Sunburn' - Muse

21. 'Everyone nose (All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom' - N*E*R(*D

22. 'Want you bad' - The Offspring

23. 'Defy you' - The Offspring

24. 'All I wanted' - Paramore

25. 'Hallelujah' - Paramore

26. 'Propane nightmares' - Pendulum

27. '1901 (demo)' - Phoenix

28. 'Gigantic' - Pixies

29. 'Killer Queen' - Queen

30. 'The show must go on' - Queen

31. 'When doves cry' - Quindon Tarver

32. 'Skin on skin' - Queens of the Stone Age

33. '"You've got a killer scene there, man"' - Queens of the Stone Age

34. 'Paranoid Android' - Radiohead

35. 'Karma police' - Radiohead

36. 'Scar tissue' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

37. 'Otherside' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

38. 'Lights out' - Santogold

39. 'I'll let you live' - 'Taking Back Sunday'

40. 'Down river' - The Temper Trap

41. 'After hours' - We Are Scientsts

42. 'Undone (the sweater song)' - Weezer

43. 'Crystalised' - The XX

44. 'Save myself' - Willy Mason

45. 'Date with the night' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

46. 'Maps' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

47. 'Y control' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

48. 'Isis' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

49. 'DON'T TRUST ME' - 3OH!3

50. 'Kings and Queens' - 30 Seconds to Mars

51. 'Breathe me' - Sia

52. 'I am not a robot' - Marina and the Diamonds

Enjoy and i'll be back with pictures galoooooore!

xxx

Paris list

I'm quite anal in my personality, despite the hoarded mess that is my bedroom.

I love making lists. I get that e

xcited that I can't wait for most things and make lists while imagining whatever is coming up.

My trip to Paris (the one i'm constantly going on about - twitter) is coming up in just less than 2 weeks. Ya haaaaaa! This isn't everything i'm bringing. It's certainly most of the things.

What to bring to PARIS:

DAY 1: Black BikBok top - tights/Black H&M dress - blue leggings

DAY 2: Jean shorts - red AA top - blue tshirt/ZARA dress

DAY 3: Jean shorts - peach tshirt - white vest (tucked underneath)/Blue BIKBOK top - (over) Stripy H&M dress

Sleepwear/lounge:

AA "Legalize LA" tshirt - Batman pink shorts - leggings

3 x knicker/pants TOPSHOP

3 x bras - Strapless black/nude - yellow

Shoes:

1 x H&M flats

1 x Black Mary Janes flats

1 x White CONVERSES

Bags:

Free REISS bag

Elephant bag

Cameras:

Digital CANON IXUS 100IS

Diana Mini

Polaroid

Film:

1 x Polaroid pack

1 x Redscale film

1 x 800ISO

1 x 200ISO

Books/Entertainment:

The Devil Wears Prada

Time Out Paris

Professor Layton and Pandora's box/DS Nintendo

Extra beauty products:

1 x Suntan location (spray)

1 x Aftersun

1 x UV hair shampoo

1 x Face SPF moisturizer

1 x Body moisturizer (Firming)

This is a 3 day trip. I hope to edit things out clo

ser to the time. I already took out the Fish Eye and my ActionSampler cameras :(

('paris pont neuf' via elisevatin flickr)

I come out of nowhere bearing information...

I'm back. Temporarily. As are all my posts and how I roll.

I have a draft post dating from a few weeks ago, planning to be about the Sketchbook exhibition... but err... this post definitely not about that.

Just wanted to do a quick mini-post...

Two weeks and a day until I go to Paris!!!! Just very very excited! I went last year, but it was only for two days and.. well, that friendship pretty much ended soon afterwards... strange things a mini trip can do, eh? This time, the friend i'm going with, we're much closer and its for three days! At the moment, I need to call up Eurostar and try and arrange my first train (to Paris) to an earlier. Staying somewhere in the Mo

ntmartre area, near the Sacre Coeur :)

I have FIVE possible cameras to bring..

1. Digital camera - Canon IXUS 100

2. Diana Mini (no flash, sadly)

3 Fish Eye

4. Polariod and

5. ActionSampler

I want to take the first three, makes sense, I have plenty of 35mm film and digital photos is convenient and easy. Diana Mini, the style of pictures I want and Fish Eye is the same.

The Polaroid... I don't know.. I brought it with me last time.. it's just clunky to bring with me everywhere.. but I have a few packets of very much expiring Polaroid film in my room unused... and my worry is that the ink is drying up sooner than I want. It's already about a year expired... and ActionSampler.. I have it.. I should use it...

But to take ALL five cameras...

Perhaps leave the ActionSampler.. Paris will always be a possibility as a holiday.. I am going Barcelona this september.. perhaps i'll bring all my cameras then because I have four days...

Does anyone want to buy some Polaroid film off of me? If there are any takers, i'll only take them from the UK i'm afraid.. and preferably in London so I can meet in person and hand it over.. rather than go through the hassle of sending via post -

now I come to think of it... money is a issue too... but it can be sorted out... I dunno.

('Paris Diana Mini' - Sarah Chapman via flickr)

Thoughts about the camera situation?