Day 33 - Paris, again.

So today I actually made the effort to get up early, get breakfast and go to the walking tour that's offered through my hostel.

It ended up being REALLY good, it went for about 2and a half-3 hours, and I met an Australian girl called Amelia pretty much as soon as it started, and we spent most of the tour together hanging out. The tour was REALLY good apart from it SUDDENLY flash-flood-style raining on us. We saw heaps of sights and it was really informative.

Then after the tour the guide took us to a restaurant where you can get frogs legs and Escargot. Amelia, myself and and a guy from NZ called Shane shared a plate of Escargot. They're basically baked with a garlic butter sauce and then served. You have to scrape the snails out yourself, it's kind of fun, and they actually didn't taste awful! I kind of liked them!

After this I wanted to go to get macrons at..... Laudree! (yes Katie, just for you) So Amelia, Shane and myself missioned to the Latin quarter to find the shop. It was found relatively easily, but I had some 'tourist' issues as the other two called it.

It was in a VERY posh are of town, and I started off badly, as soon as I walked into the shop, I tried to take a photo, and the girl just instantly started waving her hand telling me "No no! You can't do that!" So I was a bit "Oh... oh my bad" but I did take the photo before I realised of the inside of the shop, with the woman waving her hand at me telling me no, LOL. I did get some good ones of the outside of the shop though.

THEN I tried to get served, without realising there was a line, so I just pushed in, and got told to go to the end. It was a very embarrassing experience, but I did stick it out and got three macrons, Apple, Raspberry and Coffee... Side note to Katie, I'm not even kidding or being a suck when I tell you this, but yours are better! Not by like... a LOT, but I definitely prefer yours.

So after this we sort of decided to go to Monmarte, the artist area of Paris. But, it started raining again, and we didn't realise it was past 6pm when we got there, so everything was closed anyway until later on (rookie mistake lol)

Anywhoo we hiked back to the hostel and all went our separate ways for a few hours. but Amelia had a great idea, she had a bottle of Vodka, and the original plan was to get drunk under the Effiel Tower (because you can drink in public in Paris) but we ended up meeting a few people from my room (a Canadian dude called Scott and a girl form Sydney called Jordana) Shane came up to our room and we just ended up playing card games all night, getting kind of drunk and having some very philosophical conversations until like 2am.

All in all it was a pretty decent day in Paris I have to say, but stay tuned for tomorrows blog....

Things that made me happy today; As always the food, and making some cool new friends

Things that made me sad today; Embarassing myself in a shop that was way too fancy for three backpackers to be in.