We're back in Paris and my sis is so excited that our French was good enough for waitress to give us french menu 🙂 This was at Le Petit Cambodge and it was good asian food 🙂 Airbnb not clean to my sis's standards though unfortunately 😦 She escalated to airbnb and luckily got a … Continue reading Parting from Paris
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Vrrrromming off to Venice
No issues for our double transfer on the train from La Spezia to Venice. Gotta hand it to my sis that she was a trooper and that massive suitcase did not give her any grief.... good on her! haha so many people driving boats on the canals everywhere! Even taxi boats 😀 some guy driving … Continue reading Vrrrromming off to Venice
Travels w/ Sis: Cinque Terre!
We both got to the ORY airport with no issues and the flight overall was very smooth too. We got outta the Pisa airport with no issues and we were very surprised that there were no checks at all for covid! Almost too easy…. We got onto the Pisa Mover commuter train from the airport … Continue reading Travels w/ Sis: Cinque Terre!
La Rochelle &…. Last Week
What a lovely little town! I went with a friend and enjoyed the quiet pace 🙂 We had a 2 hour delay on the trains getting from Toulouse —>Bordeaux —> La Rochelle but we made it after all 🙂 The hotel was fine and it was an easy 15 min walk to the city centre. … Continue reading La Rochelle &…. Last Week
Yummy homestyle cooking :D
Delicious homemade lunch on wed for Indian food 😀 My friend is SUCH an amazing cook 😀 😀 😀 She made paneer from scratch (Read that again) and then used that to make palak paneer, one of my MOST favourite Indian dishes. She also made some daal and it was more soupy and so tasty!! … Continue reading Yummy homestyle cooking 😀
Another fine dining lunch!
Went to Hedone and had the rapide lunch menu, 6 courses lol I really really wanted the full lunch but thought I should be a bit more prudent and damn which I wasn't haha Gorgeous small space, 5 tables probably for 20 people in total. Lots of polished wood, cool painting dripping paint for landscape. … Continue reading Another fine dining lunch!
Best & Most Expensive Lunch in my life (so far!) :D
Epic 3.25 hour lunch!!!!! Ooo made it to Py-r for a super fancy lunch! Gorgeous modern space with stunning crockery Most expensive lunch of my life lol There were 2 options: a shorter, "express" (haha express in France is like a 4 course lunch lol) or a full degustation menu. Of course I had the … Continue reading Best & Most Expensive Lunch in my life (so far!) 😀
Cook ups + Food Festival!
Been busy busy busy at work but taking some time to try to relax by cooking up some recipes and checking out the food festival of local wine + food 😀 First, I tried these recipes: 1)Spaghetti Bolognese: I basically followed this one down to each ingredient except... I had no fresh basil leaves subbed … Continue reading Cook ups + Food Festival!
Moseying over to Montpellier
Day 1: Went by train from Toulouse to Montpellier and it was seamless 🙂 Got to Carnon beach via the T3 tram line and the navette (free shuttle) - Very easy and good connections. It is set up very similarly to Toulouse so that made it simple to understand. Cheap pricing too: 1,60€ each way. … Continue reading Moseying over to Montpellier
Footy, Friends & Bar Champagne
Went to catch up w/ my friends E+P and I noticed that I could follow our chat in French! She has a stronger accent for me so I was quite pleased that we had a pretty seamless flow of dialogues 🙂 They were happy with the gifts I gave them and we enjoyed some good … Continue reading Footy, Friends & Bar Champagne
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