Veras travels: Paris prettiness and randoms

Paris... I don't even know where to start... It was quite amazing. We went on a study trip last week (I think I mentioned it in my last post?) And at first I have to admit I wasn't that impressed... On the surface Prague seemed prettier, and st. Petersburg way more interesting. But after running around doing all the touristy things the first couple of days I got to see a bit more and underneath the surface layer of «just another city» it is quite beautiful. There were so many nice museums, shops and galleries, and the people I met were mostly really friendly, even though I don't speak a word French. I think my favourite bit of the week was spending hours walking round spectacular Notre Dame and this really nice little illustration gallery we went to. http://www.danielmaghen.com/fr/index.htm It's just a little room with stacks and stacks of portfolios that we could look trough, and some pictures on the wall. All originals, almost all amazing. And the owner was really friendly and passionate about it all. It was really good... Other then that we had some amazing pizza, went to Sacre Cæur, Mulin Rouge and the catacombs. Went to see Ibsens «A Dolls house/ et dukkehjem». Had baguettes, flan and macaroons and looads of coffee to keep us going. Painful feet, annoyed faces and happy smiles... All in all a great trip, and all I want to do now is go back! There is still so much I want to see and do and experience and only three and a half days was way to short.

After we got home I haven't really been doing much. I've ordered loads of books on Chopin and a new laptop though. This time I went for the Mac Book Pro 4 GB ram, 500 GB hard drive. Basicly this beauty. It will be delivered next week and I'm really looking forwards to working on a machine that isn't making funny noises and is falling apart or freezing up half the time. Silje and Faye gave blood the other day, and then we went and had drinks with sober Max... It was interesting =P And yesterday we had and extra practice with the Fish because we have a gig on Saturday, and were doing another practice tomorrow...

Mmm... I guess that's all I have to say for this time.

Pictures from Paris time!

( don't know why some of them didn't rotate.. :S)