EuroTrash en France (but let's chat about Seoul and London too)

Why hello.

We find ourselves in Paris; but more importantly, we find ourselves in an internet cafe with lots of time available. We have not been able to decipher how much it will cost yet - our haltering French hasn't yet reached beyond "Ou est le toilette?" and "merde" and other such phrases.

However, despite our lengthy absences from this blog, my priority does remain with you gentle reader. Take a journey with me as we recap things that have happened thus far!

KOREA

Yes, as mentioned in the previous post, our 15 hours or so in Seoul were action packed! Not letting the fact that it was midnight and about 5 degrees celcius, we decided to do as the locals do and went shopping at 3am. Yes! This city is a shoppers paradise! The massive malls in the city are open from 10am through to 5am EVERY DAY.

3am in Seoul! Night market stalls in front of the huge shopping malls

And, as promised in the previous post, here is a picture of the greatest gastronomical item invented by Korea. Behold the CHIP SURPRISE:

Starting from the outside with a layer of chippy battered fried goodness, one is indeed surprised when a sausage is encountered in the middle of this gastronomic delight! SURPRISE!

And before the cries erupt of "EuroTrash! You travelled across the globe to just eat fatty fried fat?" please be assured that we did eat more regular Korean fare:

Pick a title:

"EuroTrash enjoys traditional Korean BBQ cuisine"

"Traditional Korean BBQ enjoys EuroTrash"

"EuroTrash sucked off table by traditional Korean BBQ"

LONDON

Trash for trash.










We felt immediately at home in London.

The following sights were viewed (amongst others):

EuroTrash was highly dismayed to find out that this bridge is NOT London Bridge. Having seen this picture all our lives as a London landmark, we foolishly assumed it was the London Bridge. No! It is Tower Bridge. We were heart broken to learn this fact as we were skipping across the walkway singing "London Bridge is falling down!"




When we heard that a bunch of men were parading down the Mall wearing bearskins and blue feathers on their heads, we thought London's version of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was in town. But no, it was the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.

We put our leather chaps away with haste.



Note that the stay in London was also educational! We learned some new, exciting and innovative photography techniques! Look at these!


By increasing the aperture on one's camera, one can make things go blurry in the foreground! Genius!













Look how the water is blurred giving the impression of flow and movement! Yes! Simply lengthen your shutter speed and you too can create photographs as good as this one!















And if all of these sights and education wasn't enough, EuroTrash was fortunate enough to see the stage production of MARY POPPINS! Yes, the classic movie comes to life on stage - and in all seriousness it was wonderful. The directors have given the stage Mary Poppins a strange edge to her - very much like Johnny Depp as Will Wonka. Our singing of "Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious" carried long into the night as we ambled back to our beds for the night.

Aah.


PARIS

And so that brings us to Paris. EuroTrash only arrived in Paris several hours ago; but the city has already had such effect on us. We are staying right next to Notre Dame. Double aah.

The following sights were seen this afternoon:


The sun setting over the Seine as we regardons le cathedral du Notre Dame de Paris!
We are currently making up our French as we go along. Apologies to anyone that actually speaks French for ruining your language completely. We did however manage to buy two tickets on the Metro this afternoon. SUCCESS!

People busking playing the accordion and wearing black and white stripy shirts!








Small cobbled laneway complete with small car parked at jaunty angle on the kerb and a dome roof with spire peering over the top of the buildings!










Yes, these have all made EuroTrash very happy. However, on the way here to this very internet cafe, we came across another sight which beat the lot!

Woman with big hair, leather jacket and small fluffy white dog!!!












Triple aah.


Au revoir,

-EuroTrash